Bobby bought two shares of stock, which he sold for $96 each. If he had a profit of 20 percent on the sale of one of the shares but a loss of 20 percent on the sale of the other share, then on the sale of both shares combined Bobby had？

At a certain supplier, a machine of type A costs $20,000 and a machine of type B costs $50,000. Each machine can be purchased by making a 20 percent down payment and repaying the remainder of the cost and the finance charges over a period of time. If the finance charges are equal to 40 percent of the remainder of the cost, how much less would 2 machines of type A cost than 1 machine of type B under this arrangement?

The area of a square garden is A square feet and the perimeter is P feet. If A = 2P + 9, what is the perimeter of the garden, in feet?

To determine her state income tax last year, Elena computed 5 percent of her gross income, rounded the resulting figure down to the nearest $100, and subtracted $50 for each dependent that she claimed. If Elena's gross income was $34,500 and she claimed 2 dependents, how much did she determine her state income tax to be?

Amy's grade was the 90th percentile of the 80 grades for her class. Of the 100 grades from another class, 19 were higher than Amy's, and the rest were lower. If no other grade was the same as Amy's grade, then Amy's grade was what percentile of the grades of the two classes combined?

Last semester an assistant was paid a total of $800 for grading papers in a class of 37 students. If each student handed in 7 papers and the assistant graded all of these papers, then, to the nearest whole dollar, the assistant's pay per paper graded was?

In a certain group of 10 members, 4 members teach only French and the rest teach only Spanish or German. If the group is to choose a 3-member committee, which must have at least 1 member who teaches French, how many different committees can be chosen?

At 12:00 noon, the temperature in a certain storage room was 64. If the temperature in the storage room decreased at a constant rate of 2 per hour for the next 8 hours, what was the temperature in the storage room at 8:00 in the evening?

Of the 50 employees of a certain company, 30 earn an average (arithmetic mean) salary of $30,000, 15 earn an average salary of $40,000, and 5 earn an average salary of $60,000. What is the average salary earned by the employees of this company?

A charitable organization has a goal of raising $300,000 in 100 days. If it raised $200,000 in the first 60 days, what is the average (arithmetic mean) number of dollars per day that it must raise for the last 40 days in order to achieve its goal?