579 Answered Questions for the topic Percentage

Percentage

10/28/16

Every 4th person will receive a free tote, every 5th person w which person will get all 3?
Every 4th person will receive a free tote bag, every 5th person will receive a free hat, every 10th person will receive 40% off, which person will receive all 3?
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Percentage

10/27/16

What is the fewest number of votes in an election if one of the two candidates gets 93.6 of the votes.
Please explain the answer. so yeah thatnks. and goodbye
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Percentage

10/24/16

What is the fewest number of votes in an election if one of two candidates gets exactly 20% of the votes?
Explain your answer please, thanks. Your amazing! WAZA
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Percentage Math Math Word Problem

10/20/16

Percentage and Numbers
There are 100 items in a garage sale. 3o% of the items are sold during the first hour of the sale. If 10 items are sold during the secound hour, what persent of the items have not been sold?
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Percentage Math Percent Interest

10/20/16

A buyer purchases a home for $225,000. The have acquired a 30 year loan at 6.5% with 20% down. How much interest will the buyers pay over the life of the loan?
I need help finding out the total interest paid over the life of the loan. Step by step, thorough and Please make it easy to understand. Thank you 
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Percentage

10/19/16

I have two solutions and I'm trying to
I have 15 liters of a solution that is 5% alcohol and another solution that is 12% alcohol. How many liters of the 12% solution would I need to make an 8% solution of alcohol?
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Percentage

10/19/16

36 is what percent of 30
Step by step process 
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Percentage

10/19/16

0.85 is 25% of what sum?
Step by step process 
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Percentage

10/14/16

how many percent has the value of your investment decreased?
Last year, it was bad news: the value of your investment plunged by 50%. This year was much better: your investment increased in value by 75%. Over the two-year period, by how many percent has the... more
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Percentage

10/12/16

Is it possible to find the percentage of a percentage goal
We are having an argument on if you can find a percentage on a percentage goal. For example: If I have a goal of 0.5% with less being better and I hit 7.3% what percentage of my goal did I achieve.... more
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Percentage

10/11/16

What percent is 799 out of 41,731,233
If i have 41,731,233 people and I have talked to 799 of them, I want to know what percent of people i have talked to. 
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Percentage Decrease

10/10/16

there were 80 gallons of gas in a tank...
There were 80 gallons of gas in a tank. Now there are only 50 gallons left.  a) calculate the decrease in the amount of gas in the tank as a percentage of the original. This percentage is the... more
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Percentage Prealgebra

10/10/16

Percent question
A customer is upset with the Sports Genius staff because he thinks the price of his purchase has been calculated incorrectly. The cashier took 10% off $80, then 20% off that cost. The customer... more
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Percentage

10/07/16

Price of item after discount
The sale price of an item is $160 after a 20% discount. What was the original price of the item?
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Percentage

10/04/16

how many more green apples do you need to get 80% green apples if you have 30 red apples and 70 green apples
How do I calculate this?  I know the answer is 50, I don't know how to calculate it though.       70/100 = 70% green apples.  I need 10% more green apples.  But if I do 10 more green apples its... more
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Percentage

10/01/16

Express how much was paid for the shoes as a percentage of the orginal cost?
A pair of shoes goes on sale for 20% off and then goes on the clearance rack for an additional 30% off.A customer walks in with a 10% off coupon good on all clearance items and buys the shoes.
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Percentage

09/29/16

Percentage Question
In 2008, 19 million people in australia were born in australia and the rest, 7.8 million were foriegn born. What percentage of the population in Australia was foriegn born?
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Percentage

09/26/16

Percentages
Pam and mark are considering jobs where they will be paid strictly on commissions. The commissions is expected to be 5% on all sales of house water filters they close. Pams goal is to earn a gross... more
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Percentage Fractions

09/21/16

Owen lived half of his life in Toronto and 1/3 of his life in in Niagra. He then moved to Brampton. If he has lived in Brampton for 4 years, how old is he now?
1/2 of his life in Toronto, 1/3 of his life in Niagra falls, 1/6 of his life in Brampton 
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09/19/16

Dr. Hawk works in an allergy clinic, and his patients have the following allergies
Dr. Hawk works in an allergy clinic, and his patients have the following allergies: 65 are allergic to dairy products, 89 are allergic to pollen, 90 are allergic to animal dander, 29 are allergic... more
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09/17/16

A sporting goods shop received 600 pairs of shoes that costs 420. If the cost of doing business was 180 of the sales what percent net was realized?
I'm a bit confused computing for the net percentage profit. Kindly show me how to solve the word problem
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Percentage Fractions Reduced

09/16/16

Reduction of the outcome by a set percentage
I am trying to achieve a consistent reduction by 4% of the outcome using this formula1/(1-h/e) e is a big number, but it doesn't really matter what it is (it's 2^52)h is a random number between 0... more
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Percentage Math

09/15/16

5 students in a class of 16 earned A's. what percentage of students does that represent?
percentage
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Percentage Algebra 1 Word Problem

09/12/16

gina recently got a 10% raise on her salary. If gina used to make $25 an hour, what is her new salary?
I really need help on this problem it is very confusing  
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Percentage Math Word Problem

08/31/16

16 laptops is 11% of what number of laptops?
Math word problem. Including percentage. Round to the nearest tenth unless otherwise indicated 
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