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Solve The Following Problems and Show Your Solutions

The document contains 10 problems in each of the following categories: fractions and decimals, percent, ratio, rates and proportion, and buying and selling. The problems involve mathematical operations like division, finding percentages, ratios, rates, and profit/loss calculations. Solutions to the problems were requested.

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Solve The Following Problems and Show Your Solutions

The document contains 10 problems in each of the following categories: fractions and decimals, percent, ratio, rates and proportion, and buying and selling. The problems involve mathematical operations like division, finding percentages, ratios, rates, and profit/loss calculations. Solutions to the problems were requested.

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Solve the following problems and Show your solutions.

Fractions and Decimals

1. Divide ⅖ by 3½
2. Divide 6/5 by 10
3. 4/7 of a number is 84. Find the number.
4. Maddy reads three-fifth of 75 pages of his lesson. How many more pages he need to complete the lesson?
5. A herd of cows gives 4 litres of milk each day. But each cow gives one-third of total milk each day. They give 24
litres milk in six days. How many cows are there in the herd?
6.  Divide 13.2 ÷ 2
7. Divide 0.5 ÷ 0.2
8. The product of two numbers is 42.63. If one number is 2.1, find the other.
9. Joey, Keith, and Eli have a combined height of 77 meters. If Joey is 2.31 meters tall and Eli is 2.62.6 meters tall,
how tall is Keith?
10. James works at an Indian sweet shop. He needs to fill boxes with 0.3 kilograms of coconut barfi each. If he has 8
kilograms of coconut barfi, how many boxes can he fill?

Percent

1. In the United States, 13 out of every 20 cans are recycled. What percent of cans are recycled?
2. In an exam Ashley secured 332 marks. If she secured 83 % marks, find the maximum marks.
3. An alloy contains 26 % of copper. What quantity of alloy is required to get 260 g of copper?
4. There are 50 students in a class. If 14% are absent on a particular day, find the number of students present in
the class.
5. In a basket of apples, 12% of them are rotten and 66 are in good condition. Find the total number of apples in
the basket.
6. In an examination, 300 students appeared. Out of these students; 28 % got first division, 54 % got second
division and the remaining just passed. Assuming that no student failed; find the number of students who just
passed.
7. In a class 60% of the students are girls. If the total number of students is 30, what is the number of boys?
8. Emma scores 72 marks out of 80 in her English exam. Convert her marks into percent.
9. Mason was able to sell 35% of his vegetables before noon. If Mason had 200 kg of vegetables in the morning,
how many grams of vegetables was he able to see by noon?
10. Alexander was able to cover 25% of 150 km journey in the morning. What percent of journey is still left to be
covered?

Ratio, Rates and Proportion

1. Mika can eat 21 hotdogs in 6 minutes. She wants to know how many minutes (m), it would take her to eat 35
hotdogs if she can keep up the same pace. How many minutes would Mika need to eat 35 hotdogs?
2. Trisha can make 5 pairs of earrings in 1 week. Assuming she works at this constant rate, how many complete
pairs of earrings can she make in 10 days?
3. You know that to make 20 pancakes you have to use 2 eggs. How many eggs are needed to make 100 pancakes?
4. The Crayola crayon company can make 2400 crayons in 4 minutes. How many crayons can they make in 15
minutes?
5. A typist can type 120 words in 100 seconds. At that rate, how many seconds would it take her to type 258
words?
6. A can of tomato paste weighs 16 ounces and/or 452 grams. This depends on whether you use English
measurement or SI. What is the number of ounces of tomatoes in 1000 grams?
7. Ann, Jane and May shared 360 stamps in the ratio of 3:4:5. How many stamps did Ann got?
8. If 6 men can paint a wall in 64 hours, find the number of men required to paint the wall in 48 hours?
9. Alex can finish reading a novel in 3 days. How many novels can he finish in 1 month if there are 30 days in that
month?
10. Four machines can recopy 25000 books in 6 days. How many machines are needed to copy 25000 books in 3
days?

Buying and Selling

1. Deansy store purchased goods worth Php300,000. The goods were sold at a mark-up of 50% based on cost. Sales
would be amounted to_______.
2. Jeric sells merchandise for Php 25,000 inclusive of a mark up of 25% based on cost. What is the mark up?
3. Units sold were 36,000 and the selling price per unit is Php100.00. What the profit if the cost per unit is
Php60.00?
4. During the year, C AND E store purchased goods worth P300,000. There were P80,000 unsold goods at the end
of the year but old stock brought forward from the last year’s purchases was P20,000. What is the cost of sales?
5. Rio corporation reported a net loss of P80,000. Its sales were P400,000 and gross profit was 40% of net sales.
Operating expenses amounted to _______.
6. Gilo’s generated sales amounted to P100,000 with cost of sales representing 75% of sales and expenses is 10%
of sales, net income will be______.

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