Warm up questions:

1) What is 35% less than 450?

2) What is 20% more than 30% of 350?

3) Sara budgeted $3000.00 for hotel, food and ticket for her next trip. She decides to spend her
money on these items with the following ratio. 1.5 : 0.5 :3. How much should she spend on
food?

4) Ashpreet works as a teacher earning $35/hr for 35 hours of work per week for 42 weeks a year.
Her salary, however, is paid throughout the entire year. Calculate her annual, semi-monthly and
bi-weekly salary.
How much tax should she pay?

5) Jeff paints 2 walls in 40 minutes. How many hours will it take him to paint 7 similar walls?

Exam type questions:

6) Helen decided to invest $50,000.00 in A, B and C companies with the 2/5 : 1/3 : 0.1 ratios. How
much should she invest in company B?

She realizes that the min investment in company “A” is $30,000.00 How much more should she
invest in company “C” to keep the ratios the same while investing $30,000.00 in company “A”?

7) Ashpreet (from question 5) has recently received another teaching job offer for $48,800.00 per
year with the possibility of 50 hours over-time paid as time and a half (meaning that she will
receive 1.5 times the regular hourly salary for every hour of over-time work).
As her financial advisor, would you recommend her to accept this job offer? Why?

8) A $1565.00 laptop is on sale for $1200. Calculate the discount rate (as a percentage of the
original price)

9) Diego has sold 80 kid and adult tickets. He does not remember how many tickets of each type he
has sold, but he knows that he has collected $2050. Calculate how many kids tickets are sold by
him. Consider each kid ticket to be $20 and each adult ticket to be $30.

10) Graph the following line: 2y = -3X - 5

Extend:

11) Joy has paid $850 for her new TV. She does not remember the discount rate, but knows that she
has paid 12% tax on the after discount price. If the list price of the TV is $1000.00, find the
discount rate on the TV.