Business Math

Preliminary Examination

I – Fractions: Solve each of the following problems:

1. Daru missed 7 questions on the 20-item quiz. What part of the quiz was he correct?
2. A realtor sold 77 condominium units from the 300-unit condominium building in Makati City.
What part of it are sold? What part of it are not sold?
3. Grade 11 students were able to raise P7,550.75 in the Pondo ng Pinoy drive. Pondo ng Pinoy
collects only 25-centavo coins. How many 25-centavo coins were collected?
4. Feliz is ready to print her 83-page thesis paper for her adviser and four panellists. She also wants
to keep a copy each for herself and for her parents. Is one ream of bond paper enough? What
part of one ream will be used for printing? (one ream is 500 sheets)

II – Simplifying Fractions: Solve each of the following problems: Express your answer in lowest terms.
5. A 10-centavo coin is what fractional part of a peso?
6. One kilometer is 1000 meters. What fraction of a kilometre is 750 meters?
7. Veronica is 18 years old, and she takes 500 mg of Vitamin C per day. The recommended dose for
her 11-year old sister Julia is 250 milligrams. What part of Veronica’s dosage does Julia take?
8. Ms. Velasco’s class has 22 girls and 14 boys. What is the fraction of the girls in her class?
9. There were 8 slices of eggpie in which 2 sisters ate one slice each. Afterwards, their brother
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came and ate of the pie that was left. How many slices of eggpie did the brother eat?
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The following are results of a weight loos contest. The one with the greatest weight loss will be
declared as the winner. Study the table below then answer the questions that follow.

10. How many kilograms did Leo lose?

11. How many kilograms did Kevin lose?
12. How many more kilograms did Paul lose than Julius?
13. How many kilograms did Paul lose than Leo?

III – Addition and Subtraction of Fractions: For items 14-18, use the table
below. It shows the height of five students. Write all answers in simplest
form.
 14. How tall is Max than Tess?
15. How short is Karen than Arthur?
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16. If Silvia stood on a box that is 1 6 feet high, how far would the top of her head be from the floor?
17. What is the sum of Tess’ and Silvia’s heights?
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18. Max grew foot this year. How tall was he last year?
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IV – Multiplication & Division of Fractions

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19. Sam had 120 teddy bears in his toy store. He sold 3
of them at ₱120 each. How much did he
receive?
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20. of a group of children were girls. If there were 24 girls, how many children were there in a
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group?
21. Gary and Henry brought an equal amount of money for shopping. Gary spent ₱95 and Henry
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₱350. After that Henry had 7
of what Gary had left. How much money did Gary left after
shopping?
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22. of the people on a restaurant are adults. If there are 95 more children than adults, how many
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children are there in the restaurant?

V – Operations with Decimals

23. Alice needs 8 ¼ teaspoons of butter to bake a cake. She has a stick of butter (that is, 4.5
tablespoons) left from her previous recipe. If a stick of butter costs ₱33, how much does she
need to buy the remaining butter?
24. Gab got a summer job in a dessert kiosk. His first customer ordered for a sundae that costs
₱28.75. The customer gave ₱30.00. How much change should he give?
25. Teresa went to shop materials for her scrapbook. She got the scrapbook for ₱220.25, ball point
pen at ₱16.75, and scrapbook decors at ₱90.50. How much dis she pay for the materials?
26. Michael and his four classmates are Architecture students. Their team won the Architectural
design contest for the housing units for the Yolanda victims. Each person on the team received
₱55,025.75. How much money did the team win altogether?
27. Julia made ribbons for her school’s Foundation Day presentation. Her roll of ribbon was 35
meters long. For each individual ribbon, she needed 0.235 meters. How many ribbons could she
make from her roll?