Can someone check these?
11. The sales tax rate is 7.4%?
a. Find the tax paid for a pair of shoes with a list price of $93
b. the team made a total of 325 goals. what percent of the teams made goals did richard make?
$6.88; $99.88
$6.88; $93.68
$0.69; $99.88
$0.69; $93.68
12. Doug is a salesperson in a retail store and ears $75 per week, plus 15% of his weekly sales, if Doug makes $550 one week. What are his sales for that week?
$3,200
$627
$566
$1,914
13. Last year, a poll of 1,00 voters conducted by the staff of Senator Chun found 522 people approved of the job the senator was doing. This year, anew poll of 1,000 voters shows that 423 approve of the senators performance. Find the percent of change in the of voter who approve of the senators performance.
19% increase
23.4% decrease
23.4% increase
19% decrease
14. The owner of an electronics store received a shipment of MP3 players at a cost of $64.25 each. If he sells the MP3 players for $99.99 each, what is the percent markup? Round to the nearest whole percent?
6%
36%
56%
62%
My answers:
B
C
A
C
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Try this site for an explanation of percents.
http://www.mathsisfun.com/percentage-menu.html
You will find more instructions in that site.
You may also want to use
http://www.khanacademy.org/math
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