Arithmetic 2
Arithmetic 2
Arithmetic 2
2. The piece of a box of soap powder increased from $2.50 to $2.65. calculate the percentage
increase in the price.
3. (a) Kim pays a bill for $52.45 with a $100 note. How much change should she receive?
(b) All invests $2500 at an annual rate of 6%simple interest. After 8 months he withdraws
all the money. How much does she receive?
5. A rope is cut into two pieces in the ratio 3 : 2. The longer piece is 9.6m long. Find the length
of the shorter piece.
12. Jean-Luc invests Rs15000 at an annual rate of 8% simple interest. After 9 months he
withdraws all the money how much does he receive?
13. In a restaurant prices were reduced by 30%. After the reduction, a meal of braised whole
sharksfin with crabmeat cost $28.00.
a) Calculate the cost of the meal before the reduction.
b) The rate of exchange is . calculate the cost, in pounds, of this $28.00 meal
14. (a) A survey of a TV Channel showed that there were 50 minutes of advertisements during
a 5 hour period. Calculate, in the form , the ratio of the time spent on
advertisements to the total time.
(b) A film started at 23 40 and finished hours later. At what time did the film finish?
15. Sam wants a television, he can either buy or rent it.
a) The cost of buying is $960. Sam would pay a deposit of 30% followed by 12 equal
monthly payments.
i. Calculate the deposit
ii. Calculate each monthly payments
b) The cost of renting the television is $310 for the first year and $20 for each month
after the first year.
i. Calculate the total cost of renting it for 3 years
ii. When will it become more expensive to rent the television than to buy it for
$960?
c) In a sale, a television is reduced from $960 to $900. Calculate the percentage
discount.
16. On four occasions a bus takes the following times to complete a journey.
hours hours hour minutes hours
By first expressing these times in minutes, write them in order of size, starting with the
smallest.
22. (a) A sum of money is divided in the ratio . The larger part is $7.20. find the smaller
part.
(b) Express the ratio 700 to 1.75 in its lowest terms. Give your answer in the form
, where and are integers.
b) On 1 May 1998 William invested $900 for four years at 6% per annum simple
interest.
i. Calculate the interest he received on his investment.
ii. He invested another $900 for 3 years at 6% per annum
simple interest on 1 May 1999, than $900 for 2 years at 6%
per annum simple interest on 1 May 2000, and a final $900
for 1 year at 6% per annum simple interest on 1 May 2001.
William withdrew all of this money on 1 May 2002.
Calculate how much more money Jane withdrew than William.
25. (a) Find the fraction which is exactly half way between and .
(b) Subtact 370 grams from 3.7 kilograms. Give your answer in kilograms.
26. Express
a) As a decimal
b) As a fraction in its simplest form.
27. (a) Find the lowest common multiple of 12, 30 and 66.
(b) Three lightships flash simultaneously at 6 00 a.m.
The first lightship flashed every 12 seconds, the second ship every 30 seconds, and the
third ship every 66 seconds.
at what time will the three ships next flash together?
28. (a) John and Karen opened bank accounts.
i. John deposited $800in his account.
This account pays simple interest at the rate of 5% per year.
Calculate the total amount in his account after 3 years.
ii. Karen deposited $800 in her account.
This account pays compound interest at the rate of 5% per year.
Calculate how much more money there is in her account after 3 years than
there is in John’s account.
(b) Leslie borrowed a sum of money at 10% per year compound interest.
After three years he owed a total of $532.40.
Calculate how much he borrowed.
30. Add 480 grams to 4.8 kilograms. Give your answer in kilograms.
34. Mr. Smith bought three companies, Alpha, Beta and Gama, for a total of $80 000 000.
The amounts he paid in these companies were in the ratio .
a) Calculate how much he paid for each company.
b) When he sold the companies, he made a profit of 12% on the $80 000 000 he paid
for them.
Calculate the profit he made on the sale of three companies.
c) When he sold the companies, he made a profit of 25% on Alpha and a loss of 10% of
Beta.
Calculate
i. The profit he made on Alpha,
ii. The percentage profit he made on Gamma.
d) When the previous owner, Mr. Jones, sold the companies to Mr. Smith for
$80 000 000, he made a profit of 60%.
Calculate the total amount Mr. Jones had paid for the companies.
35. The number of hours worked each day by Adam and Brenda is shown in the table.
Day 1 Day 2 Day 3 Day 4 Day 5 Day 6
Adam 7 5 8 9 8 0
Brenda 0 8 9 9 7 5
The number of hours for which they are paid is calculated in the following way.
On each of days to , every hour worked after the first 7 hours is counted as hours.
On day 6, every hour worked is counted as 2 hours.
a) Calculate the total number of hours for which Adam was paid.
b) The rate of pay is $14.50 per hour.
How much did Brenda earn on day 6?
36. Green line buses run every 10 minutes.
Red line uses run every 20 minutes. Purple line buses run every 35
minutes.
One bus from each line leaves the city centre at 09 00.
After how many minutes will buses from all three lines next leave the city centre at the
same time?
37. (a) Two varieties of tea, ‘high blend’ and ‘normal blend’, are made by mixing grade A leaves
and grade B leaves.
i. In High Blend, the ratio of the mases of Grade A leaves to Grade B leaves is
. Find the mass of Grade A leaves used in making 250 g of High Blend.
ii. 1 kg of normal Blend is made using 450 g of Grade A leaves.
Find, in its simplest form, the ratio of the masses of Grade A leaves in Normal
Blend.
Give your answer in the form where and are integers.
iii. 250 g of High Blend is mixed with 1 kg of Normal Blend.
Calculate the percentage of the mass of this mixture that consist of Grade A
leaves.
(b) During a sale, a shop sold packets of tea for 20% less than the price shown on their
labels. Elizabeth and peter each bought a packet of tea in the sale.
i. Elizabeth’s packet had a labeled price of $4.50.
How much did she pay?
ii. Peter paid $6.20 for his packet.
Calculate the price shown on its label.
44. (a) These are the prices for a ride in an amusement park.
Adult $3.60
Child $2.25
i. A family of two adults and three children went on the ride.
They paid with a $20 note.
Calculate the change they received.
ii. Express $2.25 as a percentage of $3.60.
47. In an examination, Alan obtained 32 out of 40 marks. In another examination Ben obtained
of the total marks.
Express the mass of each candidate as a percentage.
Alan ……………..%
Ben ……………..%
48. (a) Write the following numbers in order of size, starting with the smallest.
(b) in a school election, John received 220 votes. This was 55% of the total number of votes.
Find the total number of votes.
49. Written as a product of its prime factors, .
a) Write 108 as a product of its prime factors.
b) Find the lowest common multiple of 108 and 360.
Give your answer as a product of its prime factors.
c) Find the smallest positive integer such that is a cube number.
54. (a) The table shows the fares charged by a taxi company.
10 00 11 20 00 36
Times
22 56 12 50
i. Calculate, in hours and minutes, the length of time between the high tide on May 6
and the morning high tide on May 7.
ii. Given that low tides occurred midway between high tides, calculate the time of the
low tide on the afternoon of May 5.
(c) The height of a mountain is 1800 meters.
It is suggested that this mountain has been worn away at an average rate of 0.15mm
per year.
Assuming that the suggestion is correct, calculate the height of the mountain 20 years
ago.
55.
A farmer wishes to build a rectangular enclosure against a straight wall. He had 39 identical
fence panels, each 1 meter long.
One possible arrangement which encloses an area of , is shown in the diagram and
recorded in the table below.
Find the length of the enclosure which would contain the largest area.
Record all your trials in the table.
56. The numbers and , written as a product of their prime factors, are
60. (a) Anne’s digital camera stores its images on a memory card.
The memory card has 128 units of storage space.
When 50 images were stored, there were 40 units of unused storage space on the
memory card.
i. Calculate the percentage of unused storage space on the memory card.
ii. Calculate the average amount of storage space used by each image.
(b) Shop A charged 60 cents for each photograph.
Shop B charged 63 cents for each photograph and gave a discount of $1 on all purchases
more than $10.
i. Ann bought 24 photographs from Shop A and paid with a $20 note, calculate the
change she received.
ii. Find how much cheaper it was to buy 24 photographs from Shop
B than from Shop A.
iii. Find the smallest number of photographs for which it was cheaper
to use shop B.
62. A wooden plank is cut into three pieces in the ratio . The length of the longest piece
is 125 cm.
Find
a) The length, in centimeters, of the shortest piece.
b) The total, length, in meters of the plank.
63. Every month a sales man pay is made up of a fixed amount plus a bonus. The bonus is a
percentage of his monthly sales.
a) In 2006 the bonus paid was of his monthly sales. The graph shows how his
monthly paid varied with his monthly sales.
Use the graph to find
i. The fixed amount,
ii. The value of .
b) In 2007 the fixed amount was $3500per month and the bonus was 5% of his monthly
sales. In July his sales were $12 000.
Calculate the salesman pay for July.
64. (a) In 2006 the cost of fuel was 91.8 cents per liter.
i. Calculate the maximum numbers of whole liters that could be bought for $15.
ii. In 2007 the cost of fuel was increased by 4 cent per liter.
a) Calculate the percentage increase in the cost of fuel in 2007.
b) On average, a car travelled 21 km on 1 liter of fuel.
During 2006 this car traveled 19200 km. In 2007 the car travelled the same distance.
Calculate the extra cost for the fuel in 2007.
Give your answer to the nearest dollar.
iii. In 2006 the cost of fuel was 10% less than the cost in 2005.
Calculate the cost, in cents, per liter in 2005.
(b) A service station sells unleaded, super-unleaded and diesel fuel.
The pie chart represents the amounts of these fuel sold during one week.
The total amount of fuel sold during this week was 54000 liters.
i. How many liters of diesel were sold?
ii. The amount of unleaded fuel sold was of the total for the week.
How many liters of super-unleaded fuel were sold?
65. (a) During a 20 week period in 2007, a bank made a profit of $378
million.
i. Calculate the average profit it made each second.
ii. During the same 20 week period in 2008, the profit was $945 million.
for this 20 week period, calculate the percentage increase in the profit from 2007 to
2008..
iii. Find the ratio of $378 million to $945 million.
Give your answer in the form , where and are the smallest possible
integers.
(b) Mary changed 480 euros into dollars.
The exchange rate was euros.
The bank took, as commission, 2% of the amount that had been changed.
Calculate the number of dollars the bank took as a commission.
66.
The sea level at high tide is 1.53 meter above a ledge, on a cliff.
At low tide the sea level is m below the sea level at high tide.
a) At what time does the sea reach this level?
b) How far below is the sea level at this time?
67. (a)
69. (a) In a town, 11 000people out of the total population of 50 000 are aged under 18.
What percentage of the population is aged under 18?
(b) A company employing 1200 workers increased the number of workers by 15%
How many workers does it now employ?
73. (a) The mass of a container and its contents is 2.4 kg.
The mass of the contents is 750 g.
Calculate the mass, in kilograms, of the container.
(b) Express the ratio 24 cm to 3 m in its lowest terms.
give your answer in the form , where and are integers.
74. In a sale, a shopkeeper reduced the market price of his goods by 20%.
(a) The marked price of a book was $20..
Calculate its price in the sale.
(b) The price of a camera in the sale was $60.
Calculate the marked price.
75. (a) The rate of change between pounds (£) and dollars ($) is .
The rate of exchange between pounds (£) and euros (€) if .
i. Catherine changes £ 500 into dollars.
Calculate how many dollars she receives.
ii. Esther changes €726 into pounds.
Calculate how many pounds she receives.
iii. Rose changes 850 into euros.
Calculate how many euros she receives.
(b) Mathew changes $770 into rupees,
He receives 40 000 rupees.
How many rupees she receive for each dollar.
(c) (i) Lilly bought a car for $13 500.
She paid for it in 36 equal monthly payments.
Calculate the amount she paid each month.
(ii) George bought a car for $27 000.
He borrowed the $27 000 at 15% per year simple interest for 3
years.
He paid the total amount in 36 equal monthly payments.
Calculate the amount he paid each month.