So I am going back to school full time and it’s been a while. I have never been good at math but need to take a placement test upon entry.
I have no idea HOW to do any of these questions. they are not real test questions they are from a practice website I found. the website gives you an answer key but that doesn’t help. I need help on how to get started, how to go about solving the problems.
Here are some of the questions: Please keep in mind I already have the answers and I am not looking for answers. I need help on HOW to start them. Here is the website I pulled the questions from, the answers are on the bottom of the page http://www.testprepreview.com/modules/algebra1.htm
1. If Lynn can type a page in p minutes, what piece of the page can she do in 5 minutes?

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2. If Sally can paint a house in 4 hours, and John can paint the same house in 6 hour, how long will it take for both of them to paint the house together?

3. Employees of a discount appliance store receive an additional 20% off of the lowest price on an item. If an employee purchases a dishwasher during a 15% off sale, how much will he pay if the dishwasher originally cost 0?

4. The sales price of a car is ,590, which is 20% off the original price. What is the original price?

5. Solve the following equation for A : 2A/3 = 8 + 4A

6. If Leah is 6 years older than Sue, and John is 5 years older than Leah, and the total of their ages is 41. Then how old is Sue?

7. Alfred wants to invest ,000 at 6% simple interest rate for 5 years. How much interest will he receive?

8. Jim is able to sell a hand-carved statue for 0 which was a 35% profit over his cost. How much did the statue originally cost him?

9. The city council has decided to add a 0.3% tax on motel and hotel rooms. If a traveler spends the night in a motel room that costs before taxes, how much will the city receive in taxes from him?

10. A student receives his grade report from a local community college, but the GPA is smudged. He took the following classes: a 2 hour credit art, a 3 hour credit history, a 4 hour credit science course, a 3 hour credit mathematics course, and a 1 hour science lab. He received a “B” in the art class, an “A” in the history class, a “C” in the science class, a “B” in the mathematics class, and an “A” in the science lab. What was his GPA if the letter grades are based on a 4 point scale? (A=4, B=3, C=2, D=1, F=0)

11. Simon arrived at work at 8:15 A.M. and left work at 10: 30 P.M. If Simon gets paid by the hour at a rate of and time and ½ for any hours worked over 8 in a day. How much did Simon get paid?

12. Grace has 16 jellybeans in her pocket. She has 8 red ones, 4 green ones, and 4 blue ones. What is the minimum number of jellybeans she must take out of her pocket to ensure that she has one of each color?

13. If r = 5 z then 15 z = 3 y, then r =

14. If 300 jellybeans cost you x dollars. How many jellybeans can you purchase for 50 cents at the same rate?

15. Lee worked 22 hours this week and made 2. If she works 15 hours next week at the same pay rate, how much will she make?

16. If 8x + 5x + 2x + 4x = 114, the 5x + 3 =

17. You need to purchase a textbook for nursing school. The book cost .00, and the sales tax where you are purchasing the book is 8.25%. You have 0. How much change will you receive back?

18. You purchase a car making a down payment of ,000 and 6 monthly payments of 5. How much have you paid so far for the car?

19. Your supervisor instructs you to purchase 240 pens and 6 staplers for the nurse’s station. Pens are purchased in sets of 6 for .35 per pack. Staplers are sold in sets of 2 for 12.95. How much will purchasing these products cost?

20. If y = 3, then y3(y3-y)=

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Background: About 6 years ago I was doing a pretty extensive job search, and was contacted back by a "recruiter" who requested my resume. I sent it in but never heard back, even when I called to follow up.

Roughly a year later, so 5 years ago, I had started and then closed a business and was job-searching again. As I googled around to see if there were any new ways to put together a professional resume, any new trends etc, I clicked a link and was slapped in the face when my OWN RESUME appeared on the site owned by "Professional Resume Writers."

Seems they place ads for employment, obtain resumes from innocent job-seeking applicants, then turn around to re-sell the stolen resumes to their "clients."

I don’t know if that’s ok or not ok in the legal sense, but I had written mine and I didn’t want them selling it.

So I contacted the business and requested that they remove my resume from their website. They ignored me, so after the third request (phone message and email), I reported them to the Better Business Bureau and other types of similar online business complaint services.

At that point, the business owners came UNGLUED and wrote several dozen pages of miscellaneous slanderous rhetoric about me which they are now broadcasting all over the Internet.

Their extensive posting of misinformation about me is pretty much evidence (to me anyway) that they were in fact guilty of stealing other people’s original work. Guess I hit a nerve.

They easily obtained my employer’s name, my home address, my phone info, and other personal data and proceeded to blast articles everywhere that I was a dishonest business person, that I was "deranged", that people should steer clear of doing business with me, etc etc etc.

This has caused so much stress for me that in addition to having to change jobs and change phone numbers, I actually was compelled to legally change my name. When you google my old name, because of the wording, the meta tags, and the search engine placement these people have utilized; it appears as though I’m untrustworthy, crazy, and even a criminal.

They even have my photo and contact information up on a website that they themselves maintain, that lists all of the slander they are posting about me.

Is there anything I can do about this? How can they be using my photo?

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Are there any marketing jobs in san diego or in california in general? I am a recent graduate and barely can find any.

I use craigslist, careerbuilder/indeed.com, monster.com, yahoo hot jobs, directly go to corporate web sites, but no luck.

It seems like EVERY marketing job is 99% of the time for a "manager", "director", "senior", or some other high position, are there ANY entry-level marketing jobs? I know they are things like marketing analyst, marketing assistant, assistant brand manager, marketing associate/coordinator, etc., but they are barely any.

I am willing to go to other states but it seems like it’s the same thing over and over, garbage entry level jobs flooding job sites that are door-to-door labelled as "marketing", or manager jobs that I’m obviously not qualified for, what am I supposed to do? Is it the economy? This major? Or something else?

I haven’t found any schools in California that I can enroll in an MBA because they all require you work first, average age of entrance is normally 27-28 with 4-6 years of work experience. Unless I do an online degree which I wouldnt want to do.

*Why are there more managerial positions than entry level? What other functions in a business should I look after? I also try product development, PR, communications, etc.

*How can I work for online marketing firms that require things like Search engine marketing experience when I didnt learn that stuff in school? Should I get a certificate in it? Learn it somewhere?

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Are there any marketing jobs in san diego or in california in general? I am a recent graduate and barely can find any.

I use craigslist, careerbuilder/indeed.com, monster.com, yahoo hot jobs, directly go to corporate web sites, but no luck.

It seems like EVERY marketing job is 99% of the time for a "manager", "director", "senior", or some other high position, are there ANY entry-level marketing jobs? I know they are things like marketing analyst, marketing assistant, assistant brand manager, marketing associate/coordinator, etc., but they are barely any.

I am willing to go to other states but it seems like it’s the same thing over and over, garbage entry level jobs flooding job sites that are door-to-door labelled as "marketing", or manager jobs that I’m obviously not qualified for, what am I supposed to do? Is it the economy? This major? Or something else?

I haven’t found any schools in California that I can enroll in an MBA because they all require you work first, average age of entrance is normally 27-28 with 4-6 years of work experience. Unless I do an online degree which I wouldnt want to do.

*Why are there more managerial positions than entry level? What other functions in a business should I look after? I also try product development, PR, communications, etc.

*How can I work for online marketing firms that require things like Search engine marketing experience when I didnt learn that stuff in school? Should I get a certificate in it? Learn it somewhere?

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I possess Airline Cargo experience of 3.6 years, 1.6 years into Back end process and 2.4 years into Pay Per Click (PPC) works.
Please can anyone help/guide me.

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