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Question 843096: How do you calculate 16 years and 1 month into seconds?
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Question 843095: How do you calculate 16 years and 1 one month into seconds?
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Question 843052: If A gives B �2 they will have the same amount of money, and if B gives A �2 then A will have twice as much as B.
How much do they have?

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Question 843108: an investor has 5,000 for the first year he wants to earn a 6% profit. he will save part in a bank that pays 4% interest and invest the other part in a 8% bonds. how much must he invest in each?
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Question 843241: Find the associated exponential decay or growth model.
Q = 1,800 when t = 0; half-life = 5
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Question 843281: Luigu plans on investing 4000 coins he has collected from his travels into two accounts. The grumpy Goomba account earns 3% simple interest and the Bashful boo account earns 7% simple interest. How much money should he invest into the Bashful boo account so he can earn 186 coins at the end of the year?
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Question 843408: jessies juice bar prices its bottled juices by raising the wholesale price 50% and then adding 25 cents. what is the wholesale price of a bottle of juice that sells for $2.95?
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Question 843470: $270 is Divided among three people Tom, Oliver and Charlie. Tom will receive three times as much as Oliver and Oliver will receive twice as much as Charlie
How much will they each receive?
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Question 843484: Mang Lorenzo, a gardener, can mow a lawn in 3hours. After 2 hours it rained and he stopped moving the lawn. In the afternoon. Aling Tina, completed the rest of the work in one hour and 30 minutes. How long would it take aling Tina to mow the lawn by herself? ( answer is 2hours and 22minutes - show your solution )
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Question 843877: A man invested $5,000 in two mutual funds. Last year one of the funds went up by 7% and the other fund went down by 4%. If his portfolio increased in value by $130 last year, how much did he invest in the fund that earned a 7% profit?
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Question 843763: If I open a savings account and start with 1800 dollar deposit interest is 6% how much will I earn after 8 years if I don't withdraw any money during that time
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Question 843915: At a restaurant, the bill comes to $65. You decide to leave a 16% tip. What is the total amount you will owe for dinner and tip?
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Question 844015: How long will it take to triple your money if, you invested it at a 8% compounded quarterly.
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Question 844016: You will be traveling abroad and trying to decide which cell phone company is the best for you. You are comparing two that both charge the a base rate per month plus and additional charge per minute of use. Each cell phone company charges differently
Company A: Charges $140 per month plus $0.20 per minute
Company B: charges $65 per month plus $0.50 per minute
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Question 844018: if you put 1500$ in a savings account that paid 4.5% compounded yearly, how much interest would you earn in ten years ?
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Question 844103: If I invest $5,000 at 8.5% compounded quarterly how many years will it take my investment to triple
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Question 844119: Sepertate $90 into two parts so that the second part is $30 less than twice the first part.
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Question 844209: Beth C. Day lived 63 years from 18tu to 18ut. The sum of tu and ut is 11. In what year was Beth C. Day born?
explain why
18tu-18ut=63; to
1800+10t+u-(1800+10u+t)=63; - why 10?

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Question 844305: I am having trouble setting up these problems, I do not know which formula to use r=I/pt or I=Prt

An investor earned $1080 on an investment of $60,000 in 45 days. Find the annual simple interest rate earned on the investment.
Capitol City Bank approves a home-improvement loan application for $17,000 at an annual simple interest rate of 9.75% for 270 days. What is the maturity value of the loan?

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Question 844374: how many t shirts and hats should Ann and Bob make so that their profit is an high as possible

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Question 844381: Roberto investment some money at 6% and then invested $5,000 more than twice this amount at 10% his total annual income from two investments was $3100. how much was invested at 10%
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Question 844388: A popular teen boy band is coming to your city for 3 performances. If the price per ticket range from $25.00 for balcony seats, $40.00 for main floor rear seats and $55.00 for main floor front seats what is this average ticket cost?
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Question 844635: how long does it take a principal of $5600 to earn a simple interest of $1176 at 7%
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Question 844783: You found a job that pays $12 per hour. After working for one year, you will get a 4% raise. What will be your new pay rate after one year?
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Question 844601: Calculate the simple intrest on 5600 invested at 8%per annum for 4 years

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Question 844823: If inherit �270 and the ratio is 5:4 how much do i save and how much do i spend?
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Question 844948: Find the interest on �25,800 for 144 days at six percent per annum. base your calculation on a 360 - day year
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Question 844948: Find the interest on �25,800 for 144 days at six percent per annum. base your calculation on a 360 - day year
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Question 844928: If 14% of the 230 million adult Americans live in poverty, how many adult Americans live in poverty?
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Question 845342: you invested $16,000 in two accounts paying 2% and 7% annual interest. If total interest earned for the year was $970, how much was invested at 2% and 7%
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Question 845499: A principle of $5000 was invested in a time-deposit account paying 9% annual interest. If the amount in the account at the end of a certain period was $7250,for how long was the money invested?
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Question 845578: Martin sold his computer and software for $900, receiving three times as much for the computer than the software. What was the selling price of the computer and the software? Write and solve an equation.
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Question 845684: Question: Mrs. Mayor invested $1400.00, part at 5% and part at 8%. Her total annual income from her investment was $100.00. Find the amount she invested in both.
I AM TRYING TO HELP MY DAUGHTER WITH HER MATH - I WAS VERY GOOD AT MATH IN SCHOOL - BUT AM QUITE RUSTY... WHAT I'M LOOKING FOR IS THE DIRECTIONS - STEP BY STEP - AS TO HOW TO WRITE THE EQUATION - AND HOW TO SOLVE. WHAT I'D LIKE IS TO BE ABLE TO SEE WHAT WOULD NORMALLY BE IN THE BEGINNING OF THE CHAPTER OF HER MATH BOOK. SHE DOESN'T HAVE ONE - SO I AM UNABLE TO LOOK IT UP THAT WAY... I NEED A MINI REFRESHER COURSE! PLEASE HELP! AS MANY DETAILS & INSTRUCTION AS YOU CAN PLEASE!
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Question 845768: how do i finish an equation using the formula A=P(1+R)t

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Question 845986: sam and mark have the same money .
sam buys 4 sweets and has 5p left over.
mark buys 2 sweets and has 11p left over
form an equation where s stands for the price of sweets and how much money sam had at the start to spend
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Question 845995: You have already invested $300 in a stock with an annual return of 11%. How much of an additional $1,300 should be invested at 12% and how much at 6% so that the total return on the entire $1,600 is 9%? (Round each answer to the nearest cent.)
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Question 846496: A bank account that compounds continually began with $4000. Now it has $7000. How much time has passed?
please show the steps
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Question 846556: how many years will it take $5000 to grow to $7500

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Question 846567: There are 49,000 seats in a sports stadium. Tickets for the seats in the upper level sell for $25, the ones in the middle level cost $30 and the ones in the lower level are $35 each. The number of seats in the middle and bottom levels together equal the number of seats in the upper level. When all of the seats are sold for an event, the total revenue is $1,419,500. How many seats have been sold in the upper level?
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Question 846572: I want to accumulate $120,000 in 30 years. Plan A is a single deposit into an account that compounds annually and an apr of 5% plan B is a single deposit into an account with continuous compounding and an apr of 4.8%
How much do I need to deposit into each account in order to reach my goal
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Question 846681: 3.8% 0f 50 is what

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Question 846746: Frank makes and sells small picture frames. His revenue from sales can be represented as R=$13.60x for x frames sold. The cost of making the frames can be represented as C=$5.80x +$120 for x frames made. What is the minimum number of frames Frank must sell in order for his revenue to be greater than his costs.
Please help, I can't wrap my head around this one. Thanks, Karl
pistolpest2000@yahoo.com
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Question 846806: You want to put $4,000 in a simple interest account. It has a 2.5% annual interest rate. How long will it take you to earn $500 in interest?
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Question 847053: Susan invests 3 times as much money at 5% as she does at 4% . If her total interest after 1 year is $570 , how much does she have invested at each rate?

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