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Chapter 10: Topics in Arithmetic

(10A) Percentage (10B) Profit and loss (10C) Simple interest (10E) Multipliers and chain percentage (10D) Reverse percentage problems (10F) Compound growth

(10) Types of numbers (10) Significant figures (10) Upper and lower bounds

Extension Problems

A photocopier can enlarge and reduce documents by a certain percentage. You accidentally enlarged a document by 20%. By what percent do you need to reduce this copy by to get the same size as the original?
*Give your answer to 2 decimal places. Include the % sign in your answer.

You are conducting a science experiment and have 180 ml of an 8% salt solution.
This means, in the 180 ml of water, there are 180 $\times$ 0.08 $=$ 14.4 g of salt in the 180 ml of water.

Your teacher asks you to make a 10% salt solution using 3 methods:

a) By evaporating water. How many ml of water would you need to evaporate?
b) By adding salt. How many grams of salt would you need to add? Assume 1 gram of salt adds 1 ml to the solution.
c) By adding a 15% salt solution. How many ml of this solution would you need to add?

a)

b)

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There are 100 people in a room where exactly 99% are mathematicians. How many mathematicians must leave the room to bring down the percentage of mathematicians in the room to exactly 98%?

a) A store marks up an item by $20\%$ but it doesn’t sell so they mark this price down by $20\%$ and put it on sale. When the item was sold, the loss on this sale was $60$ yen. Find the original price of this item.
b) A store marks up an item by $25\%$ but it doesn’t sell so they mark this price down by $\fbox{___%}$ and put it on sale. When the item was sold, the percentage profit on this sale was $5\%$. Find the number that goes in the blank.
*a)You don’t need to include “yen” in your answer.

a)

b)

$25\%$ of $x\%$ of $x\%$ of $x$ is $\frac{729}{40}$. Find $x$.

A speaker talked for sixty minutes to a full auditorium. Twenty percent of the audience heard the entire talk and ten percent slept through the entire talk. Half of the remainder heard one-third of the talk and the other half heard two-thirds of the talk. What was the average number of minutes of the talk heard by members of the audience?

At a summer camp, $60\%$ of the children play soccer, $30\%$ of the children swim, and $40\%$ of the soccer players swim. What percent of the non-swimmers play soccer?
*Give your answer to one decimal place. Include the % sign in your answer.

$a=100$ rounded to $1$ significant figure,
$b=100$ rounded to the nearest ten and
$c=100$ rounded to the nearest integer.
Find the upper bound of $\frac{a+b}{b+c}\times\frac{c}{a}$.
*Give your answer correct to 3 decimal places.