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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Hi we live in Houston,TX and we have been pre-approved for a 5,000 loan for a 4bdr 2 1/2 bath 2 car garage. Here is the house: http://search.har.com/engine/dispSearch.cfm?mlnum=8391655&backButton=Y
My husband is a veteran and is over 10% disabled so we qualify for no down payment. The interest rate is currently at 5.3% for the area,which is very good. But I dont believe that’s the fixed rate that’s just the adjustable rate. We would much rather go with a fixed rate which might be slightly higher but is locked in for 3 decades. Anyways, being that we have no down payment our loan officer estimated that our mortgage may be around 1200 -1300 which may be a little too much for us. We are looking to pay 1000 the most. Anything under that would be great as well. What do you recommend us doing next? Do we schedule a viewing of the house,get it appraised and possibly negotiate with the sellers to lower the price? The house has been on the market for awhile now.

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My husband and I pretty much decided last Friday we’d start casually looking at homes to buy (first timers). Housing prices are not only bottomed out in our area, but interest rates are insanely low as well which is a rare pair. I have excellent credit, we have a small down payment, we love this area-The stars seem to be aligning.

Anyway, we went to an open house Sunday afternoon and instantly fell in love. This house is perfect for our little family-Great commute, great neighborhood, big backyard, huge patio, a workshop for handy hubs. It’s beyond amazing and at a DARN good price (been on the market for 6 mo and already dropped 15k). Things started moving quickly from there and a mortgage company that specializes in government/VA (we’re military) loans drew up a pre-qualification letter for us. Upon giving the lender our info a past demon came up in my husband’s credit history that I was unaware of.

I knew he had a few fiascos, but he’s done very well in my past five years, since meeting me! : ) What I didn’t know was that he co-signed for a later repossessed Honda. I vaguely knew about something that occurred with a car, but this was back in 2004 (he thought it was 2003) and assumed all was well again.

We now how to explain this. It’s the only thing holding us back. Any suggestions on how he should explain the situation? I believe the repo was voluntary. It is SO old, but I know, it’s still a black mark. We also snagged the bottom of the barrel interest rate in our pre-approval letter, so that will probably go out the window if they don’t decide to say: "No go!" Am I correct?

I’m desperately seeking advice, help, anything. None of my friends have ever faced this, nor have I found anything in any search engines or websites referencing this particular situation. Any lenders in the house? Please!!!

Thank you! : )
Note: I spoke with the lender over the phone while he was doing the credit report and because I didn’t know the details of the matter, I informed him that I’d get back to him and he sent the pre-approval guarding it was in error or unless it was explainable.

I just discovered after lots of searching, that the most recent activity on this account occurred in 01/2006. However, the listing in his credit report is not entirely accurate. First of all, it only reads "joint" but does not include the name of the person he was co-signed to. It also does not reflect the fact that the car was sold at auction and apparently it was. He offered an explanation that he was the co-signer and unaware that payments weren’t being made per Experian.

I don’t necessarily want to negotiate with an evil collections company, but we’d certainly consider paying 25-50% of the auction balance…IF they agreed to take it OFF or change the status to paid as agreed in writing.

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Hello,

I am am 17, and I would like to get a few credit cards. Not to buy things, but to grow my business.

I do Search Engine Marketing, and I need all the money I can get to get my business going. I can just pay for all expenses from my personal funds, they don’t need to know I am using it for a company.

I would like to get my credit going, but I would not know how to to do this. My mother has 2 credit cards, and her credit score is 800, perfect.

Would it be a good idea to add me to her credit cards, and bank account so I can get her perfect credit? From there, I would apply for a credit card myself?

Now.. I would like a credit card that I would be 100% liable for under all circumstances!

Now, I would need a credit card with a limit of like 2K+.
However, I don’t have a ‘real’ part or full time job, so I don’t know how I would prove that I make money to pay back my bills.

I also don’t care about interest rate! Since I have a 15% ROI.

Thank you for any information you may have
I get my revenue every 15 days.

I am not going to sued or anything, so there is no reason I need to get incorporated as of now.

Though, I will get something because of the tax breaks.

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