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Topic Basic skills Class - ? Questions 1- 10 (slightly more spaced out formatting in the questions.

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Write the following words as fractions (Question 1 to 10): 1. One half

2. Two-thirds 3. One quarter 4. Four-fifths 5. Five and one-quarter 6. Two and seven-eights 7. Six and five-ninths 8. Three and seven-elevenths 9. Two and three-sevenths 10. Three fifths

Write the following fractions as words from (Question 11- 15): 11.

12.

13.

14.

15.

16. What fraction is 4 m of 10 m?

17. What fraction is 20 m of 40 m? 18. What fraction is 30 mins of 1 hr? 19. What fraction is 45 mins of 1 hr? 20. What fraction is $60 of $100? 21. What fraction is $30 of $100? 22. What fraction is 500 mL of 1 L? 23. What fraction is 250 mL of 1 L? 24. What fraction is 90 of 180? 25. What fraction is 135 of 180?

Change each of the following mixed numbers to an improper fraction (Question 26 to 33): 26. 27. 28. 29.

30. 31. 32. 33.

Change each of the following improper fractions to a mixed number (Question 34 to 41): 34.

35.

36.

37.

38.

39.

40.

41. Find (Question 42 to 56) 42.

43.

44.

45.

46.

47.

48.

49.

50.

51.

52.

53.

54.

55.

56.

57. Three-fifths of the classes of 25 students are female. How many of the class are female? How many are male?

58. James plans to bank one-quarter of her weekly wages. If James weekly wage is Rs.800, how much will Maria bank each week? 59. How much is one-quarter of a kilogram? 60. How much is one-quarter of 4 kilograms? 61. How long is three-quarters of 4 kilometers? 62. How much is four-fifths of 1 ha (1 ha = 10 000 m2)? 63. A project returned Rs10,000. The profit is expected to be two-fifths of the return. How much profit? 64. How much sand is needed to make 30 tons of concrete, if three-tenths of the concrete mix is sand? 65. On an average weekday three-quarters of the train seats are occupied. If the train has 400 seats, how many seats would be occupied on an average weekday? 66. Mahesh covered five-eighths of his journey of 800 km on the first day. How far did Mahesh travel on his first day? Write each of the following percentages as a fraction (Question 67 to 86): 67. 68. 69. 70. 71. 72. 73.

74. 75. 76. 77. 78. 79. 80. 81. 82. 83. 84. 85. 86. Write each of the following fractions as a percentage (Question 87 to 105) 87. 88. 89. 90. 91. 92. 93. 94.

95. 96. 97. 98. 99. 100. 101. 102. 103. 104. 105. 106. About 70% of a 50 kg persons weight is water. How much of the 50 kg is water?

107.

40% of a Rs.650 wage is spent on rent. How much is the rent?

108.

If 22% of a sale is profit, how much profit in a sale of Rs.8200?

109.

15% of the classes of 24 students are left-handed. How many left-handed students?

110.

60% of the classes of 23 students have brown eyes. How many browneyed students?

111.

Mia pays 37% tax on an income of Rs.56 000 pa. How much tax does Mia pay?

112.

The management fund returned 9% on an investment of Rs.35 000. How much was returned?

113.

The bank deposit of Rs.5000 returned 6% interest. How much interest was earned?

114.

A fortnightly wage of Rs.860 was increased by 4%. What is the new wage?

115.

A monthly rent return of Rs.1500 is reduced by a 7% management fee. How much is paid to the landlord?

116.

What is the hotel room bill after VAT of 10% is added to Rs.235?

117.

What is the electricity bill after VAT of 10% is added to Rs.350?

118.

What is exactly halfway between

119.

What is exactly halfway between

120.

One-quarter of the class were involved in the school play. How many students are in the class if 5 students were involved in the school play?

121.

75% of the 800 tickets cost less than Rs.50. How many tickets cost less than Rs.50?

122.

Two-thirds of 4863 people at the festival wore a hat of some kind. How many people wore a hat?

123.

The binoculars, priced at Rs.50, are to be reduced by 20%. What is then the price of the binoculars?

124. 125.

Put the following fractions in order from smallest to largest: What is Rs.20 as a fraction of Rs.50?

126.

15 of the 45 students have brown eyes. What fractions of the students have brown eyes?

127.

The basket contains 12 hen eggs and 18 bantam eggs. What fraction of the eggs are hen eggs.

128.

of the concrete is gravel,

of the concrete mix is sand, and the rest is

cement. What fraction of the concrete is cement?

129.

Jayan

contributed

half,

Suresh

contributed

one-tenth,

and

Esha

contributed the rest. How much did Esha contribute?

130.

Write

as percentage.

131.

The pizza is cut into 12 equal slices. How many slices are left after twothirds of the pizza is eaten?

132.

The painting contract returned Rs.20 000. Labour and materials cost 50% and 30% of the remainder was paid in tax. How much was left?

133.

How many minutes in three-quarters of an hour?

134.

A bus journey takes two and one-quarter hours. If the bus leaves at 7:15 am, when would the bus be expected to arrive?

135.

Two-thirds of a number is two. What is the number?

136.

Adam received

of the inheritance. Matthew received

of the inheritance.

If there was $300 000 left, what was the value of the inheritance?

137.

The salad dressing suggested that 20 ml of oil be mixed with 40 ml of vinegar. Tim decided to use Tim's dressing is oil? of the vinegar instead. What fraction of

138.

The recipe for potting mix suggested that 8 buckets of compost be mixed with 3 parts of soil. Sienna decided to use of the amount of compost

and the same amount of soil. What fraction of the potting mix will be compost?

139. 140. 141. 142. 143. 144. 145. 146. 147. 148. 149.

Simplify: Simplify: Simplify: Simplify: Simplify: Simplify: ( Simplify: Simplify: Simplify: Simplify: The sum of the squares of two consecutive natural numbers is 313. Find the numbers. The sum of two natural numbers is 8. Determine the numbers, if the sum of their reciprocals is .
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150.

151.

Simplify

152.

Simplify

153.

Simplify

154. 155. 156.

Simplify Simplify Evaluate

157.

Evaluate

158.

Evaluate

159.

Evaluate

160.

Evaluate

161.

Evaluate

162. 163. 164. 165. 166.

Evaluate ( ) Solve the equation Solve the equation If Solve . Find the value of x and y

Answer Key: (increased line spacing to 1.5 lines in the answer key. Answer key in bold) 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. One-fifth 12. Two-third 13. Four and three-tenths 14. Five and four- ninths 15. Two and eight-seventeenths 16. 17. 18. 19. 20. 21. 22. 23. 24. 25.

26. 27. 28. 29. 30. 31. 32. 33. 34. 35. 36. 37. 38. 39. 40. 41. 42. 43. 44. 45. 46. 47. 48. 49. 50. 51. 52. 53.

54. 55. 56. 57. 58. 59. 60. 61. 62. 63. 64. 65. 66. 67. 68. 69. 70. 71. 72. 73. 74. 75. 76. 77. 78. 79. 80. 81. 82.

83. 84. 85. 86. 87. 88. 89. 90. 91. 92. 93. 94. 95. 96. 97. 98. 99. 100. 101. 102. 103. 104. 105. 106. 107. 108. 109. 110. 111. 112. 113. 114.

115. 116. 117. 118. 119. 120. 121. 122. 123. 124. 125. 126. 127. 128. 129. 130. 131. 132. 133. 134. 135. 136. 137. 138. 139. 140. ( 141. 142. ( 143.
) ( ) )

144. 1 145. 146. 147. ( 148. 149. 12 and 13. 150. 3, 5 151. 152. 153. 154. 155. 156. 157. 158. 159. 160. 161. 162. 163. x = -3 164. The solution is {-1, 2} 165. x = -1 and y = 1 166. x = 4 and y = 1
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