Business

Mathematics
Activities
PROBLEM EXERCISES
SUBTRACTION OF FRACTIONS
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Find the difference. (2 marks each)

1. 108
SUBTRACTION OF FRACTIONS
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Problem Solving (5 marks each problem)
1. For the school’s sports day, a group of
students prepared liters of lemonade. At
the end of the day, the had liters left over.
How many liters of lemonade were sold?
SUBTRACTION OF FRACTIONS
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Problem Solving
2. CHALLENGE!
Brian has a bamboo pole that was meters
long. He cut off m and another m. What
is the length of the remaining bamboo
pole in meters?
MULTIPLICATION OF FRACTIONS
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Find the products of the following: (2 marks
each)
1. 2.

3. 4.

5.
MULTIPLICATION OF FRACTIONS
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Problem Solving (10 marks)
Inno earns K 10 500 a year. If he spends for food,
for rent, for clothing and for recreation.
a. How much does he spend for each?
b. How much is his total expenses?
c. How much does he save?
d. What fractional part of his earnings is his
savings?
DIVISION OF FRACTIONS
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Find the products of the following: (2 marks each)
1. 3 2.

3. 4.

5.
DIVISION OF FRACTIONS
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Problem Solving (10 marks)

The plastic cups at the school cafeteria each

holds cup of orange juice. The orange juice
bowl holds 24 cups of orange juice. How
many plastic cups can be filled from one bowl
of orange juice?
Business problem exercises:
   A carpenter can finish a stool in hours. If he
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works 8 hours a day, 5 days a wee, how many

stools can he finish in a week’s time?
Business problem exercises:
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Dr. Cassie Mondragon bought a dentist’s chair for K3500. She
paid of this amount as down payment. Her mother gave her of the
down payment.
a. How much was the down payment?
b. How much did her mother give her?
c. What fractional part of the total cost of the chair was the
amount given to her by her mother?
d. How much of the down payment was shouldered by Dr.
Mondragon?
SEATWORK
Solve for the unknown. Use the formula
P = BR and transform the following questions
into a sentence equation for items 1-5

1. 26.04 is 8.14% of what number?

SEATWORK
2. 2 ½ of what amount is K80.00?
3. K27.50 is 50% of how much?
4. 33 1/3% of what amount is K33.00
5. An amount 8 times as large as 10 is 3/16 of
what amount?
SEATWORK
A company nets a profit of K26,000
representing 28% of gross receipts. Compute
the amount of gross receipts.
SEATWORK
Twelve white T-shirts represent 25% of the
entire stock of T-shirts in an RTW store. The
rest are colored.
a. Compute the total quantity of T-shirts in
stock.
b. How many colored T-shirts are there?
SEATWORK
There are 24 male employees in a department
store. This represents 30% of the total number
of employees.
a. How many employees does the store have
in all?
b. How many female employees are there?
 SEATWORK # 4
1. Albert and William are candidates. Albert received
2 500 votes while William received 3 000 votes.
What is the ratio of Albert’s votes against
William’s?
2. Liezel, Maricel and Snooky are partners. Their
capital balances are K10 000, K20 000 and K30
000, respectively. What is their capital ratio?
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3. A, B, C and D divided a pie in such a way that A
got 1/5; B got 3/10; C got 1/10 and D got 2/5. Find
the ratio in which the four divided the pie.
4. Tony has three times as many red marbles as his
black marbles. If he has a total of 24 marbles, how
many are red and how many are black?
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5. A baker uses a ratio of 1 egg for every 4 cups of
flour in a certain recipe. If he or she uses a dozen
eggs, how many cups of flour will he or she need?
6. Janine and John share profits of their partnership
in the ratio 2:3. If Janine’s share in the profit for
last year was K30 000, how much was John’s share
in the profit business?