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The document contains a series of tutorial questions for students in various subjects, including mathematics and finance. It covers topics such as rational and irrational numbers, percentages, discounts, and profit calculations. Additionally, it includes practical problems related to budgeting, shopping expenses, and currency conversion.

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The document contains a series of tutorial questions for students in various subjects, including mathematics and finance. It covers topics such as rational and irrational numbers, percentages, discounts, and profit calculations. Additionally, it includes practical problems related to budgeting, shopping expenses, and currency conversion.

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TUTORIAL QUESTIONS

BBM, BEF,BAA, BET, BFB, BIRM, BMPR & BAIT-1 2023/2024


1. State whether the following statements are true or false:
(i) Every rational number is a real number.
(ii) Every irrational number is a real number.
(iii) Every real number is a rational number.
(iv) 2.15̇ is a real number.
(v) 6.4343434343 . . . is an irrational number
(vi) The product of two rational numbers is rational.
(vii) The product of two odd integers is an odd integer.
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2. Mr Charles monthly used his savings to repair his car. He spent of his savings for a new
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tyres, 6 of his saving for brakes, 10 of his savings for tune up and 12 of his savings for new
belts. What fraction of his total savings has he spent?
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3. Mr Robert went for shopping, he spent 4 he had on clothes, 2 of the remainder on food
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stuffs and 3 of the remainder on toys.When he completed the shopping he had a balance of
250,000/=.Calculate a) The total amount he spent on each of the items he brought.
b) How much money he spent on each of items he bought
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4. Solve for the unknown term x, 12 = 𝑥
5. Convert the following to decimals. Round each to four decimals or use the repeating
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6 4 4 73
decimal notation. a)13 b)9 c)11 d)22 e)5 10
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6. Convert into the rational form: (i) 4.05, (ii) 7, (iii) 0, 3̇, (iv) 2.15̇
7. i) |𝑥 − 2| 7 (ii) |5𝑥 + 2|  5
8. Winners pays a net price of $27.50 for a winter jacket after receiving a retail trade discount
of 45%. What was the List price of the jacket?
9. A manufacturer that sells jeans directly to its retailers uses market research to find out it
needs to offer a 25% trade discount. In doing so, the retailers will then be able to price the
product at a list price of $59.99. What price should retailers pay for the jeans
10. A retailer purchases supplies for its head office. If the retailer pays $16.99 for a box of
paper and was eligible for a 15% volume discount, what was the original price for the box
of paper?
11. Best Buy just acquired an HP computer for its electronics department. The net price on the
computer is $260.40 and Best Buy receives discounts of 40% and 38%.
a). What single discount is equivalent to the two discounts?
b). What is the list price?
c). What is the total discount amount?
12. 25 packets of papers purchased by a photo copier. Market price of each packet is Tsh 35000
and he got a discount of 18% and an additional discount of 5% on the cash payment. Find
the value of the deal.
13. A company offers buy three pens and get four. Convert this offer of quantity discount into
equivalent discount rate.
14. An advertisement claims that at 60% off, you are saving $18. However, today there is an
additional 20% off. What price should you pay for this item? What percent savings does
this represent?
15. Josephine is a sales representative for Kraft Foods. Over the past two weeks, she closed
$325,000 in retail distribution contracts. Calculate the total gross earnings that Josephine
earns if
a) She is paid a straight commission of 3.45%.
b) She is paid 2% for sales on the first $100,000, 3% on the next $100,000, and 4% on
all remaining sales
c)She is paid a base salary of $2,000 plus a commission of 3.5% on all sales above $100,000
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16. Reduce the following ratios to their lowest terms: a.) 49 : 21 b). 0.33 : 0.066 c.)2 ∶ 11
d.) 5⅛ : 6⅞
17. With the help of 40 workers a manufacturer decides to produce 200 units. Workers work 6
hours in a day. If 60 workers can work 4 hours in a day then how many units they can
produce?

18. A recent article reported that companies in a certain industry were averaging an operating
profit of $23,000 per 10 full-time employees. A marketing manager wants to estimate the
operating profitability for one of her company's competitors, which employs 87 full-time
workers. What is the estimated operating profit for that competitor?
19. A person bought a T.V set at cost of 1,500,000 and sold it at a profit of 25%. Find the profit
and selling price of T.V
20. A German tourist arrived in Tanzania with Euros 2500. He changed all his Euros to
Tanzanian shilings paying a bank charge of 1%. He spent TShs 3,250,000 during his stay
in Tanzania. And changed the remaining cash to Euro again how many Euros did he
receive? (buying: 1Euro = TShs 3500 and Selling: 1Euro = TShs 3600)

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