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    Find vertical asymptote

    (See attached file for full problem description) Find the vertical asymptote: f (x) = __5__ x - 3

    Percentages Word Problem

    One employee of a retail electronics store is paid a base salary of $1500 a month plus a 1% commission on sales she makes during the month. What were her sales last month if she earned a total of $1741.92 ?

    Solving Logarithms Evaluation

    1. Evaluate logarithm. Round results to 3 decimal places. 2. Approximate logarithm using properties of logarithms, given log b^2 = 0.3562, logb^3 =0.5646 and log b^5 = 0.8271 3. Find exact value of logarithm 4. using properties of logarithms to expand express as a sum, difference, and/or

    Calculate the break-even product value of using Express Mail (overnight delivery) versus Parcel Post (three-day delivery) for sending a package from Peoria, Illinois to Memphis, Tennessee. The following table contains the appropriate costs. Assume that inventory carrying cost is 25 percent per year of the product value and that there are 365 days in a year.

    Calculate the break-even product value of using Express Mail (overnight delivery) versus Parcel Post (three-day delivery) for sending a package from Peoria, Illinois to Memphis, Tennessee. The following table contains the appropriate costs. Assume that inventory carrying cost is 25 percent per year of the product value and that

    To find the amount invested

    Bob invested $22,000, part at 18% and part at 14%. If the total interest at the end of the year is $3,360, how much did he invest at 18%?

    Statistics: Regression Equation

    ** Please see the attached file for the complete problem description ** Two experts provided subjective lists of school districts that they think are among the best in the county. For each school district the average class size, the combined SAT score, and the percentage of students who attended a four-year college were prov

    Ratios, Proportions and Percentages Applications and Word Problems

    A- electronics problems. 1- If a monitor is to be sold at 30% off, how much do you have to pay? 2- A $750 digital camera is on sale for $695, what is the percent savings? When dividing, round to the nearest thousandth. 3- In science class, nicole built a cardboard girder( or a I-beam) in science class that can suppo

    Ratios, Proportions and Percentages

    Solve in any way. If you are finding the percent, round to the nearest hundredth. a- what percent of 25 is 23? b- 94.7% of what number is 462? c- what number is 23% of 45? d- 52.75 is what percent of 116? 2- Because of all the food crumbs in her room, Alicia's bedroom is filled with roaches. Last week , she bought a

    Fair Market Value : Calculating a Percentage Discount

    I received stock at a 15% discount to the Fair Market Value, what was the Fair Market Value? I know the discounted value of the stock and I want to know what the value of the stock was before the discount. The stock was discounted 15%. x= Fair Market Value of the stock before discount (I want to know this) y = discounted va

    Basic Arithmetric Question

    If a blueprint 1/4 inch equals 12 inches, what is the actual length in feet of a steel bar represented on the blue print by a line 3 3/8 inches long? How do you work this type of problem?

    Complex Algebra Problem

    Simplify the complex fraction, this is a intermediate algebra problem. See attached file for full problem description.

    Percentage Application and Percent Decrease

    The price of a cup of coffee has dropped to $2.10 today. Yesterday's price was $2.45. Find the percentage decrease. Round your answer to the nearest tenth of a percent. See the attached file.

    Labor Usage, Percentage Unused Avaliable Labor, and Distribution

    A certain service station uses a team of 3 mechanics in one repair station to work on each car that needs repair. This team can repair cars at a rate of 9 per day. Cars arrive for repairs at the station at the rate of 4.5 per day. The service station owner has decided that this team is not very efficient in terms of labor usag

    College Algebra

    Please help with the following attached questions: 20, 22, 30, 42, 46, 58, 60, 64 and 70 (See attached file for full problem description)

    Percentages of workers salaries

    A worker earns a 5% raise. A year later, the worker receives a 2.5% cut in pay, & now her salary is $22,702.68. What was her salary to begin with?

    When a pair of dice is rolled, the total will range from 2 (1,1) to 12 (6,6). It is a fact that some numbers will occur more frequently than others as the dice are rolled over and over.

    4. When a pair of dice is rolled, the total will range from 2 (1,1) to 12 (6,6). It is a fact that some numbers will occur more frequently than others as the dice are rolled over and over. A. Why will some numbers come up more frequently than others? B. Each die has six sides numbered from 1 to 6. How many possible ways can a

    Word Problem : Calculating an Extra Grade from Percentages

    One of the students in my class was absent the day of the test. The teacher announced that the class average for the 24 students who took the test was 75%. After the other student came back and took the test, the teacher announced that the class average had increased to 76%. Explain how you calculate what the absentee student

    Mutually Exclusive

    Consider the estimates below. If the alternatives are mutually exclusive and the MARR is 15% per year, the one(s) that shoild be selected is (are) ? Incremental Rate of Return, %, when Initial Alternative Compared with Alte

    Percentages and probability

    How might you estimate the percentage of the time a particular number will come up if the dice are rolled over and over? Once these percentages have been calculated, how might the mean value of all the numbers thrown be determined?

    Statistics : Sampling of Waybills, Percentage Errors

    The Chesapeake and Ohio Freight Study A sample of 2072 waybills from a population of 22,984 waybills was used to estimate the total revenue due C&O. The estimate arrived at was $64,568. Because all 22,984 waybills were avaliable, a census could be taken to determine exactly the total revenue due C&O and thereby reveal the a

    Laurent series for a complex-valued function

    Consider f(z) = [(z-i)(z+4)(z-3)]^(-1) restricted to the domain of definition 0 < |z|< infinity How many different Laurent series centered at z_0 = 0 does it have? Explain. Discuss the convergence and divergence sets of each of those Laurent series. Find two non-zero terms of the Laurent series which represents this

    MiniMax and Decision Tree Payoff Questions

    For the attached problem, I need help with c, d, and e. For a) I get Decision B For b) I get Decision C The answers for c, d, and e were shown in class to be as follows, but I need to see how they were obtained: c) Decision A d) EV(A)= 695 (best) EV(B)= 385 EV(C)= 500 e) EVPI=230 Please show m