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A machine at Staples copies 11 ¼ pages per minute. If the machine runs 800 minutes, how many pages will be copied?

Jeff Fones is paid $60 per day at his construction job. Jeff became ill on Monday and had to leave after 2/5 of a day. What did he earn on Monday? Assume no work, no pay.

 A laptop at Best Buy increased in price from $600 to $800. What was the percent of increase?

A variable rate mortgage means:

Subtract (reduce to lowest terms if necessary):  12  1/8   – 9  2/3

Killington’s ski shop ordered 300 pairs of skis. When the ski shop received the order, 60 pairs of skis were missing. What percent of the order did the ski shop receive?

0.00009 is 9 hundred thousandths.

Convert to an improper fraction9 1/8 

Round the following number to the tenth. 4.084

Mitchell Walsh works on commission. In 2008, he earned $16,192 as a scout for the Newport Gulls. If his average commission was $58 for each game he scouted, how many games did he attend? Show as a mixed number (no remainders, no decimals) reduced to lowest terms.