Test 1

1. Janic receives a 6% commission for selling newspaper advertisements. If she sells 15 ads for $50 each, how much does she earn?

a. $30 b. $40 c. $45 d. $4502. Jeffrey delivers newspapers for a salary of $20

per week plus a 4% commission on all sales. One week his sales amounted to $48. What was his income that week?

a. $19.20 b. $21.92 c. 1.92 d. $39.20 3. Mrs. Morris receives a salary raise from $25,000

to $27,500. Find the percent of increase.a. 9 b. 10 c. 90 d. 25

4. Pam pays $6 for a sweater after receiving a discount of 25%. What was the marked price of the sweater?

a. $8 b. $7.50 c. 7 d. 12 5. If a basket of food is sufficient to feed 12 persons

for 4 days, how many days would it last for 24 persons?

a. 8 b. 6 c. 4 d. 2 6. Emil put P3 000 into a savings account in January.

Six months later, he put P1 000 more into the account. The interest rate is 5% per year. How much interest will be earned at the end of the year?

a. 135 b. 150 c. 175 d. 2007. Mr leon paid a total of P 480 interest on P4 000

that he borrowed for a period of 4 years. What was the yearly rate of interest?

a. 3% b. 4% c. 5% d. 7%8. Mr Capalad earned P4 200 in commission. If he

works on a commission rate of 12%, what were his total sales?

a. 65000 b. 50000 c. 45000 d. 350009. Recca filled three containers- A, B and C with

orange juice in the ratio 5 : 3 : 4. If the capacity of the largest container was 20 liters, find the capacity of the smallest container.

a. 48 b. 28 c. 16 d. 12

10. Natalie bought 4 similar skirts and 5 similar dresses for P485. If two such skirts and one such dress cost P175, find the cost of each dress.

a. P65 b. P45 c. P36 d. P2111. 14 is what percent of 50?

a. 14% b. 20% c. 24% d. 28%12. 117 is 130% of what number?

a. 80 b. 75 c. 90 d. 120 13. In a triangle, the angles are in a ratio of

1 : 3 : 5. What is the measure of the largest angle of the triangle?

a. 20 b. 180 c. 120 d. 10014. A team won 15 games in a 35- game season. Find

the ratio of games lost to games played.a. 4 : 7 b. 7 : 3 c. 7 : 4 d. 4 : 3

15. Express 38 as a percentage.

a. 47% b. 0.37% c. 3712% % d.0.37

12%

16. What is the value of 7 hundredths + 8 tens + 28

thousandths?a. 80.98 b. 80.098 c.8.098 d. 0.898

17. How many sixteenths are there in 334 ?

a. 15 b. 19 c. 40 d. 60

18. Convert 0.018 to percent.a. 18% b. 0.18% c. 1.8% d. 180%

19. 420 seniors voted to hold the JS prom at CAP

building. This represents 49 of the senior class.

How many seniors did not vote for the CAP building?

a. 525 b. 105 c. 350 d. 42520. Divide 168 by 0.35

a. 4.8 b. 0.048 c. 48 d. 480 21. * In a library, 25% of the books were non-fiction

books and the rest were fiction books. 710 of the

non-fiction books and 310 of the fiction books

were borrowed by some pupils. If 1600 books were borrowed, how many more fiction books than non-fiction books were there in the library at first?a. 4000 b. 3000 c. 2000 d. 1000

22. What is 35 % of 300?

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a. 180 b. 18 c. 1800 d. 1.8