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Question 874786: If you invest $3,900 at a 7.83% simple annual interest rate, approximately how long will it take for you to have a total of $10,000?

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Question 874863: Martha is throwing a party for her 10 friends including herself each cupcake is $.83 how much money are all 10 cupcakes?
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Question 874685: If $33,500 is invested at 6.2% for 30 years, find the future value if the interest is compounded the following ways
annually:
semiannually:
quarterly:
monthly:
daily:
every minute (N = 525,600):
continuously:
simple (not compounded):
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Question 874979: Three�of�Carlos��and�Amy's�friends�are�purchasing�school�supplies�at�the�bookstore.Stan�buys�a notebook,�three�packages�of�pencils�and�two�markers�for�$7.50.��
Jan�buys�two�notebooks,�six�
packages�of�pencils�and�five�markers�for�$15.50.��
Fran�buys�a�notebook,�two�packages�of�pencils�and�
two�markers�for�$6.25.�How�much�do�each�of�these�three�items�cost?�
Explain�in�words�or�with�symbols�how�you�can�use�your�intuitive�reasoning�about�these�purchases�
to�find�the�price�of�each�item.
Note:so far I've tired the following prices and they did not work notebook:$1.25,$1.30,$1.00,Package of pencils:$1.50 Markers:$1.00,0.50,0.80
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Question 875160: how long will it takes for money to double itself at 10% m=4?
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Question 875225: Bob, a construction worker, worked 7 months out of the year. What percent of the year did he work?

Round to the nearest percent if necessary.

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Question 875233: How to find the total cost of a $250.00 airline ticket with a sales tax of 6%
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Question 875236: jessica bought a car in January 2012 for 20,000. In january it was worth $ 14,500. find and exponitial equation to model the info
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Question 875340: cindy has $20,000 to invest. A part of this money is invested in bonds paying 10% annual interest. The rest of the money is invested in a savings account giving 5% annual interest. At the end of the year, she received $1,600 as an extra income. How much money did Cindy place in each investment?
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Question 875517: Oliver has 7/3 the amount he can save in a month plus an additional
$60 in cash. If Oliver has a total of $270, how much money can he
save per month?

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Question 875409: If I earn $5 a week, how many weeks until I earn $3000 ?
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Question 875409: If I earn $5 a week, how many weeks until I earn $3000 ?
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Question 875556: Kelly works in a clothing store where she earns a 20% commission on the clothes she sells. Last Saturday, she sold $500 in merchandise. What is her commission for Saturday?
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Question 875618: Theo used to earn 4$ an hour.He now earns $15 an hour.What percent increase is this?
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Question 875600: How long would it take an investment to double under the following conditions? Interest is 4.6% compounded monthly.
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Question 875631: Boxell Associates has $7400 invested at 5.5% simple interest. After money was withdrawn, $242 was earned for one year on the remaining funds. How much was withdrawn
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Question 875656: if you invested 30000 dollars in two simple-interest bank accounts and one payed 6% and the other payed 8% annual interest and after one year you had 220$, how much did you invest in each account?
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Question 875666:
Chris is a software salesman. His base salary is
$2300
, and he makes an additional
$90
for every copy of Math is Fun he sells.
Let
P
represent his total pay (in dollars), and let
N
represent the number of copies of Math is Fun he sells. Write an equation relating
P
to
N
. Then use this equation to find his total pay if he sells
28
copies of Math is Fun.
Equation ? Answer ?
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Question 875646: Peter and Shelly invested $9000 for one year. Part of it was invested at 12% and the remainder was invested at 8%. At the end of 1 year the couple had earned exactly $1000 in simple interest. How much did they invest at each rate?
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Question 875833: leela sold her car seat covers at a profit of 7%. if she had sold it for $4.25 more, she would have got 10% profit. how much did leela sell her seat covers for?

With working out please.

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Question 875909: joe invested $5000 in an account that pays 8% annual interest compounded quarterly. how much money will he have in the account at the end of 2 years

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Question 875968: How long will it take 24,000 to increase to 30,000 if the simple interest rate is 6.5%?
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Question 876075: Nadav invest 16000 in an account that earns 3% interest compound continuously. What is the total amount of her investment after 12 years?
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Question 876073: Nadav invest 16000 in an account that earns 3% interest compound continuously. What is the total amount of her investment after 12 years?
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Question 876086: Nicole, Lamar, and Tony have a total of in their wallets. Tony has times what Lamar has. Lamar has less than Nicole. How much do they have in their wallets?

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Question 876094: What formula would I use to solve:
$4,500 is invested into an account earning 10% compounded quarterly. How much is in the account after 4 years?
I have been having trouble with this problem and others like it. Please and thank you!!

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Question 876084: At a movie theater, the adult ticket price is $8 and the child ticket price is $6. For a certain
movie, 210 tickets were sold and $1500 was collected. How many adult tickets were sold?
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Question 876219: what is the annual yeild of an investment at 10.5% if interest is compunded quaterly?
compunded monthly?
compounded dailey?
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Question 876363: 1. The mice population is 25,000 and is decreasing by 20% each year. Write a model for this situation. What will the mice population be in three years. show work
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Question 876646: if 10,000 is invested at 5% how much will there be in 12 years?

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Question 876646: if 10,000 is invested at 5% how much will there be in 12 years?

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Question 876651: Jan sales were 2500 continue to grow by 5% for 6 months what was total on july?
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Question 876723: Since the birth of their daughter, the Tranters have deposited $450 every 3 months on an education savings plan. The interest rate is 7.5%/a compounded quarterly. What is the plans value when their daughter turns 17?
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Question 876735: what the gross of a year if your making $450.00 a week
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Question 876936: Find the interest earned on a deposit of $2000.00 at 8% for 5 years.
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Question 877147: assume that you place money in an account that is compounded annually. how long will it take the investment to increase by 60% at an interest rate of 5%
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Question 877139: Mrs. Brady invests a total of $8218 in two savings accounts. One account yields 8.5% simple interest and the other 9% simple interest. She earned a total of $706.47 interest for the year. How much was invested in each account?
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Question 877087: after spending 70% of his salery a man having 220 rs.left find his total salery and money spend from his salery
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Question 877149: a) If Bill had $1000 to invested it for 3 years, earning 5% simple interest. How much would he have at the end of one year

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Question 877093: Joanne, a recent retiree, requires $5,000 per year in extra income. She has $60,000 to invest and can invest in bonds paying 15 percent per year or in a Certificate of Deposit paying 7 percent per year. How much money should be invested in each realize exactly $5,000 in interest per year
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Question 877223: Please help not sure how to go about answering this problem, here goes: A business man invest a total of $13900 into two businesses A and B at the simple interest rate of 14% per annum and 11% per annum respectively. If the total amount of simple interest for 2 years was $3508, what was the amount invested in business B

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Question 877547: If I have $30,000.00 and I put it into an account that earns 3% compounded annually, how much money will I earn in 30 years?

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Question 877581: How much money do I have to deposit in my account every 4 weeks in order to make one million dollars in 45 years if the yearly interest is 8 percent?
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Question 877610: if a person invests 1000 at an annual rate of 5%, how much interest will the person have after one year
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