Remedial Summative 1

In an inventory sale, a shop offers 50% off the original prices. What fraction is taken off the prices?

• 1/5

• 1/2

• 50/100

• 50%

In a survey, one in five people said they preferred a particular brand of cola. What is this figure as a percentage?

• 1/5%

• 20%

• 1.5%

• 15%

Camila is working out a problem involving 1/4. She needs to enter this into a calculator. How would she enter 1/4 as decimal on the calculator?

• 0.14

• 0.25

• 0.75

• 0.20

Kylee pays tax at the rate of 25% of her income. What fraction of Kylee's income is this?

• 25/100

• 1/4

• 25%

• .25

When Raine was buying her flat she had to put down a deposit of 1/10 of the value of the flat. What percentage was this?

• 10%

• 100%

• 110%

• 1/10%

I bought my coat in the November sale with 1/3 off the original price. What percentage was taken of the price of the coat?

• 1/3%

• 33%

• 33.33%

• 13%

Linzie bought some fabric that was 1.75 meters long. How could this be written as a fraction?

The price of the ribbon measures 80cm. 10% of the ribbon is cut off. What length of ribbon is cut off?

• 10

• 80

• 8

• 10/80

In a group of students, only 72% remember to bring a pencil to school. What percentage of students did not remember to bring the pencil

• 72%

• 38%

• 28%

• 28

In a leisure centre, 18% of people are swimming, 25% of people are in a fitness class and the rest are in the gym. What percentage of people at the leisure centre are in the gym?

• 43%

• 57%

• 100%

• 25%