Test 3 Review

Test 3 Review – Part 1

Section A: Perform the percent conversions

1) Convert the following to decimals. Do not round your answers

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a) 18% b) 150% c) 7% d) 104.9% e) %
2
f) 50% g) 33% h) 10.5% i) 115% j) 8%
1 1
k) 108% l) 2.5% m) 200% n) 5 % o) 17 %
2 4
3 7 3 1
p) 6 % q) 9 % r) 15.3% s) % t) 102 %
4 8 4 8

2) Convert the following to decimals correct to 4 decimal places.

4 1 1 2
a) 3 % b) 48 % c) 103 % d) 6 %
7 3 8 3
5 3 1 6
e) 217 % f) 9 % g) 23 % h) 4 %
8 8 3 11

3) Convert the following to fractions reduced to lowest terms.

1 1 2 3
a) 55% b) 6 % c) 7 % d) 16 % e) %
4 7 3 4
f) 29% g) 75% h) 24% i) 300% j) 250%
1 1 1 7
k) 108 % l) 33 % m) 8% n) 237 % o) 6 %
3 3 2 8
1 3 1 2 4
p) 12 % q) 4 % r) % s) % t) %
2 8 2 3 5

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4) Convert the following to percents. Express your answer in exact form.

2 1
a) 0.45 b) 0.0875 c) 1.15 d) e) 1
5 8
4 1
f) 0.357 g) h) i) 0.3 j) 0.03
7 150
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k) 3 l) 0.35 m) 1.035 n) 3.5 o)
2
3 7 3 5 2
p) q) r) s) 2 t)
4 9 8 6 3
1 3 1 9
u) v) w) 2 x)
75 500 3 350

5) Convert the following to percents correct to one decimal place.

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a) 0.7543 b) c) 1.8997 d) 0.05949
7
5 1 9
e) 2 f) g) 0.7999 h) 1
9 3 11

Answers to Section A:

1)
a) 0.18 b) 1.5 c) 0.07 d) 1.049 e) 0.005
f) 0.5 g) 0.33 h) 0.105 i) 1.15 j) 0.08
k) 1.08 l) 0.025 m) 2 n) 0.055 o) 0.1725
p) 0.0675 q) 0.09875 r) 0.153 s) 0.0075 t) 1.02125

2)
a) 0.0357 b) 0.4833 c) 1.0313 d) 0.0667
e) 2.1763 f) 0.0938 g) 0.2333 h) 0.0455

3)
11 1 1 1 3
a) b) c) d) e)
20 16 14 6 400
29 3 6 1
f) g) h) i) 3 j) 2
100 4 25 2

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k) 1 l) m) n) 2 o)
12 3 25 8 160
1 7 1 1 1
p) q) r) s) t)
8 160 200 150 125

4)
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a) 45% b) 8.75% c) 115% d) 40% e) 112 %
2
1 2
f) 35.7% g) 57 % h) % i) 30% j) 3%
7 3
k) 300% l) 35% m) 103.5% n) 350% o) 50%
7 1 1 2
p) 75% q) 77 % r) 37 % s) 283 % t) 66 %
9 2 3 3
1 3 1 4
u) 1 % v) % w) 233 % x) 2 %
3 5 3 7

5)
a) 75.4% b) 28.6% c) 190.0% d) 5.9%
e) 255.6% f) 33.3% g) 80.0% h) 181.8%

Section B: Complete the following problems involving ratios

1) Bert and Ernie are to share a prize of $960 in the ratio 3 to 5 respectively. How much does each
person receive?

2) A certain recipe calls for pork and beef and lamb in the ratio 2 ∶ 5 ∶ 1 by weight. If 48 kg of
meat is required altogether, how much of each kind must be purchased?

3) What three numbers are in the ratio 1 ∶ 4 ∶ 7 and add up to 60?

4) A lottery prize is to be shared by Anne, Bert and Cathy in the ratio 5 ∶ 8 ∶ 11. Anne and Cathy's
share combined is $320.
a) What is Bert's share?
b) What is the total amount?
c) What are Anne and Cathy’s individual shares?

5) The profit from a business venture was divided among Dave, Ellen and Frank in the ratio 1: 3: 6.
a) If Ellen received $375 what were Dave and Frank’s shares?
b) What was the total amount?

6) Four numbers are in the ratio 2 ∶ 3 ∶ 7 ∶ 11. The sum of the numbers is 437. What are the
numbers?

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7) Winnings are to be distributed among George, Helen and Irene in the ratio 3: 7: 11. George and
Helen's share combined is $750.
a) What is Irene's share?
b) What are the total winnings?
c) What are George and Helen’s individual shares?

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8) A dividend is to be shared among three people in the ratio : : .
2 6 3
a) If the third person is given $1100, how much did the first two earn?
b) What was the total amount of the dividend?

9) A total is to be divided into three separate amounts in the ratio 2 ∶ 3 ∶ 5.

a) What fraction of the total is each of the three amounts?
b) What percent of the total is each of the three amounts?

10) An amount is to be divided into two parts in the ratio 1 to 3.

a) What fraction of the total is each part?
b) What percent of the total is each part?

11) An amount is to be divided into three parts in the ratio 1 ∶ 3 ∶ 4.

a) What fraction of the total is each part?
b) What percent of the total is each part?

12) Two partners establish a business by investing $2,000 and $1,250 respectively. How should a
profit of $650 be split between them?

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13. A bonus is to be divided among three employees in the ratio : : . If the amount of the
8 2 4
bonus is $3,850, determine each employee’s share.

Answers to Section B:

1) Bert receives $360 and Ernie receives $600.

2) 12 kg of pork, 30 kg of beef and 6 kg of lamb.
3) 5, 20 and 35
4) a) Bert’s share is $160.
b) The total is $480.
c) Anne’s share is $100 and Cathy’s share is $220.
5) a) Dave’s share was $125 and Frank’s share was $750.

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 b) The total amount was $1250.
6) The numbers are 38, 57, 133 and 209.
7) a) Irene's share is $825.
b) The total is $1575.
c) George’s share is $225 and Helen’s share is $525.
8) a) The first person's share is $1650 and the second person's share is $550.
b) The total amount is $3300.
1 3 1
9) a) , and
5 10 2
b) 20%, 30% and 50%
1 3
10) a) and
4 4
b) 25% and 75%
1 3 1
11) a) , and
8 8 2
b) 12.5%, 37.5% and 50%
12) The first partner’s share is $400 and the second partner’s share is $250.
13) The first employee’s share is $550, the second employee’s share is $2200 and the third
employee’s share is $1100.

Section C: Complete the following problems involving proportions.

1) Solve the following proportions.

5 a
a) =
8 6

3 3 7
b) :a = :
2 4 8

1 1 1
c) 2 :3 = 7 : x
2 4 2

5.2 24
d) =
3.9 z

2) For every dollar earned as revenue, Ace Retail spends 11¢ on advertising. If weekly revenue
averages $15,650, how much is spent per week on advertising?

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3) A recent survey showed that 4 out of every 11 households in a particular neighbourhood
owned a DVD player. If there are 2178 households in this area, how many of them own a
DVD player?

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4) Behzad earned $145.20 in 2 hours. If he continues to earn at the same rate, how many
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hours will he have to work to earn $1,500? Round your answer to one decimal place.

5) The taxes on a piece of property assessed at $245,000 are $4,525. Find the taxes, if levied at
the same rate, on a property worth $415,000.

Answers to Section C:

15 3 7 3 39 3
1) a) or 3 b) or 1 c) or 9 d) 18
4 4 4 4 4 4
2) $1721.50 3) 792 4) 28.4 hrs. 5) $7,664.80

Section D: Complete the following problems involving percents

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1) Telephone rates will increase by 12 2 % on January 1. What will the increase be for a
residential phone that is currently billed $14.48 per month?

2) A textbook sales representative received a commission of $1,092.50 for selling

$11,500 worth of textbooks. What was her rate of commission?

3) Marie paid $1,957.50 in income taxes last year. If her taxes represent 14.5% of her taxable
income, what was her taxable income last year?

4) If your monthly rent of $480.60 has been increased by 6% effective January 15th, how much
rent will you pay on January 15th?

5) If a suit was reduced from $100 to $75 and a jacket was reduced from $150 to $120, which
was reduced by the greater percent?

6) L.I.T. Electric Inc. reduced its staff from 4,850 to 4,500 employees. What was the percent
reduction, correct to one decimal place?

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7) An investor found that an investment in a mutual fund had declined 12 4 % in value by
December 2002 at which time the investment was worth $3,490. Determine the amount of
the original investment.

8) Property taxes increased by 5.8% this year. If the taxes on a piece of property are
$2,276.60 this year, what were the taxes last year?

9) Jeff’s Spa grossed $43,000 last year. This year’s gross income was $61,060. Determine the
percent rate of increase.

10) Kevin earned $7,500 working part time last year at Maurizio’s Pizza. Deductions from his pay
were 19% of his income. How much was deducted last year?

11) Andrew purchased a car stereo at a reduced price of $234.50. If the reduction was 30% of
the regular price, what was the regular price?

12) Grace bought a pair of shoes on sale for $65. If the original price of the shoes was $90, what
was the percent reduction? Round your answer to two decimal places.

13) Food prices are expected to rise 4.6% in the next year. If this happens, how much will
groceries that cost $125 today cost one year from now?

14) By adding an extra worker to an assembly line, the number of items produced per day on the
assembly line increased from 230 to 277. What was the percent increase? Round your
answer to two decimal places.

15) A new process on a factory floor has increased production by 15%. If production is currently
161 units per day, what was the daily production before the new process was introduced?

Answers to Section D:

1) $1.81 2) 9.5% 30 $13,500 4) $509.44

5) The suit was reduced by the greater percent. (Suit reduced by 25%, Jacket reduced by 20%)

6) 7.2% 7) $4000 8) $2151.80 9) 42%

10) $1425 11) $335 12) 27.78% 13) $130.75

14) 20.43% 15) 140 units

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 Test 3 Review – Part 2

1) Express as a percent and as a decimal and round the answer to 2 decimal places:
5 2 1
a) b) 2 c) 1
16 3 35

2) Express as a fraction and as a decimal rounded to 3 decimal places:

1 1
a) 48% b) 120% c) 0.4% d) 8 % e) 10 3 %

3) Express as a percent rounded to 2 decimal places and as a fraction. Note the repeating decimals
in parts d) and e).
a) 0.6 b) 0.56 c) 1.125 d) 0. 3̅ e) 0. 6̅

4) Reduce to lowest terms.

a) 84 ∶ 90
b) 0.85 ∶ 0.125
3 2
c) ∶ 1
8 3

5) If it costs $215.65 to insulate a 95m2 wall, how much will it cost to insulate 315.75m2 at the
same rate?

6) Vince has invested $20,000 in shade coffee, pork futures, and high tech stocks in the ratio
0.56 ∶ 0.21 ∶ 0.15. How much did he invest in shade coffee?

7) Dmitri will receive a 5% raise after one year. If his current salary is $28,400, what will it be after
one year?

8) In order for a company to break even on jackets they have ordered, it needs to sell 25% of the
jackets. If they sold 54 jackets out of a stock of 205, have they broken even?

9) A manufacturer’s rebate (discount) on a printer amounted to $45 or 15% of the retail price.
What was the retail price and the price after the rebate?

10) A surfboard is $485.9 including tax of 13%. Find the price before tax.

11) The US dollar has risen from 1.0256 Cad to 1.03985 Cad. Find the percent change.

12) After Caribana, hotel occupancy rates fall from 68.94% to 41.58%. Find the percent decrease in
occupancy.

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13) Gina makes a party punch with ginger ale, lime juice and lemonade in the ratio 2 : 8 : 4. How much
ginger ale will she need in order to make 10.5 𝐿 of punch?

14) A car uses 24 litres of fuel to travel 252 km. How much fuel will be required to travel 714 km?

15) After one year of accident-free driving, Hames can get a discount of 18% on his insurance
premiums of $865.00. Find the new premium he has no accidents in one year.

16) Microsoft shares fell from $112.75 to $90.80. Calculate the percent decrease correct to two
decimal places.

17) Snowblowers are marked down 23% to $500.00. Find the original price.

18) 48,150 vehicles use the DVP during rush hour. This is a 7% increase from last year. How many
vehicles used the DVP last year?

19) Evaluate the following using a scientific calculator. Round the final answer to two decimal places.
11900
17
1 − 0.0365 ( 6 )

20) Evaluate the following using a scientific calculator. Round the final answer to three decimal
places.
0.023 3
55.7 [(1 + ) − 8]
12

21) Solve the following equation

2(2𝑥 + 5) + (3𝑥 – 1) – 2 = 0

22) Solve the following equation

1
(𝑎 − 6) = 𝑎 + 2
3

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Answers:

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1) a) 31.25%, 0.31 b) 266 3 % or 266.67%, 2.67 c) 10267 % or 102.86% , 1.03
12 6 1 1
2) a) , 0.480 b) = 115, 1.200 c) 250 , 0.004 d) 800 , 0.001 e)
25 5
31
, 0.103
300

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3) a) 60.00%, 5 b) 56.00%, 25 c) 112.50%, 1 8 , 8 d) 33.33%, 3
2
e) 66.67%, 3

4) a) 14: 15 b) 34: 5 c) 9: 40
5) $716.75 6) $12,173.91
7) $29,820.00 8) 25% is 51.25 jackets; yes OR 26.34%; yes
9) $300, $255 10) $430.00
11) 1.39% 12) 39.69% decrease or −39.69%
13) 6 litres 14) 68 litres
15) $709.30 16) 19.47%
17) $649.35 18) $45,000
19) 13272.61 20) −389.579
21) −1 22) −6

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