Vocabulary, Place Value
& Rounding
Converting between Decimals, Percentages & Fractions
Portion of an Amount
Increasing or Decreasing
an Amount
Word Problems
100

What place value is the 3 in the following number?

19302.77

Hundreds

100

Convert 3/5 into a decimal.

0.6

100

Simplify the ratio 9:12.

3:4

100

Increase 40 by 12%.

44.8

100

A computer goes on sale for 20% off and costs $650. What was the original price of the computer?

$812.50

200

What does GST stand for?

a) Great Scott Time-machine

b) General Skill Task

c) Giant Savings Team

d) Goods and Services Tax

d) Goods and Services Tax

200

Convert 28% into a fraction.

28/100 or 14/50 or 7/25

200

What is 15% of 94?

14.1

200

Decrease 7.4 by 3/4.

1.85

200

An XBox Series X costs $800 with tax. How much does it cost before tax (15%)?

$695.65

300

Put the following in order from smallest to largest:

0.15, 0.4, 1.2, 0.07, 0.065, 0.9, 0.145

0.065, 0.07, 0.145, 0.15, 0.4, 0.9, 1.2

300

Convert 0.32 into a fraction.

32/100 or 16/50 or 8/25

300

What is 3/5 of 70?

42

300

Decrease 15 by 4.5%.

14.325

300

$500 is put into a bank account and earns 4% compound interest per year. How much will be in the account after 5 years?

$608.32

400

Round 178.53 to the nearest ten.

180

400

Put the following in order from smallest to largest:

2/5, 34%, 3/7, 0.61, 19.2%, 1/4, 2/9, 0.83

19.2%, 2/9, 1/4, 34%, 2/5, 3/7, 0.61, 0.83

400

Split $48 into the ratio of 3:5.

18:30

400

Increase 17 by 115%.

36.55

400

Year 9 students travel to school in the ratio of 5:4:2 (Drive, Bus, Walk). If 120 students in Year 9 walk to school, how many students are there in total?

660

500

Laura is asked to round 1593.27 to the nearest tenth. She writes her answer as 1590.

Is Laura correct? Explain why she arrived at the answer she did.

Laura is not correct. Rounding to the nearest tenth should give us an answer of 1593.3. Laura likely mixed up the place values of tenths and tens

500

Sergey is trying to convert 4.5% into a decimal and he arrives at the answer of 0.45. Is he correct? Explain why Sergey might have arrived at this answer.

Sergey is not correct. 

4.5% as a decimal should be 0.045. The error likely came from forgetting that 4% as a decimal is not 0.4, which is actually equal to 40%. 

500

The ratio of boys to girls taking Year 13 Statistics at Rangitoto College is 3:5. 

If all 9 classes are exactly the same size, and there is an average of 20 girls in each class, how many boys in total are taking Year 13 Statistics?

There are 108 boys taking Year 13 Statistics.
500

If we increase $50 by 20% and then decrease the result by 20%, will we end up back at $50?

Why or why not?

No, we will not end up back at $50.

50 increased by 20% = 60

60 decreased by 20% = 48

The reason is because 20% of 60 is larger than 20% of 50, so we are removing more when we decrease than we added when we increased.

500

The music tastes at Rangitoto College were surveyed and found the following:

22% of students listen primarily to pop music.

1/5 of students listen primarily to rock music.

0.35 of students listen to either rap or hip hop. The ratio of rap to hip hop is 3:2.

The remaining 690 students listen to other genres primarily.

How many students listen to each genre of music?


Pop = 660 students

Rock = 600 students

Rap = 630 students

Hip-Hop = 420 students

Other = 690 students

Total = 3000 students

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