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Gladys buys a table for $ 465 to sell in her shop.
She sells the table for $ 520
Work out the percentage profit that Gladys makes from the sale of the table. Give your answer correct to 3 significant figures.
Gladys has a sale in her shop.
She decreases all the normal prices by 12%
The normal price of an armchair was $ 550
Work out the sale price of the armchair.
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Anna makes cups.
Each cup costs 6 Swiss francs to make.
Anna puts the cups into boxes to sell.
Each box contains 4 cups.
Anna sells 80 boxes of cups for a total of 2160 Swiss francs.
Work out the percentage profit Anna makes.
Show your working clearly.
The height of each cup is 9 cm , correct to the nearest cm
Ava records the number of kilometres she drives each month.
In April, Ava drove 943 kilometres.
This is 15% more than the number of kilometres she drove in March.
Work out the number of kilometres Ava drove in March.
kilometres
Otis sells ice creams.
On Friday, Otis sells 75 ice creams.
On Saturday, Otis sells 87 ice creams.
Work out the percentage increase in the number of ice creams Otis sells from Friday to Saturday.
Claudia buys an ice cream machine for 960 Swiss francs.
The value of the ice cream machine depreciates by 20% each year.
Work out the value of the ice cream machine at the end of 3 years.
Slavomir invests 5200 euros in a savings account for 4 years.
He gets 2.5% per year compound interest.
Work out how much money Slavomir will have in the savings account at the end of 4 years.
Give your answer correct to the nearest euro.
euros
Shane bought a car.
The amount Shane paid for the car was $ 32000
Theresa also bought a car.
To pay for this car, Theresa paid a deposit of $ 18000 together with 14 monthly payments of $ 1160
Theresa paid more for her car than Shane paid for his car.
Work out how much more Theresa paid as a percentage of the amount Shane paid.
\%
Kylie bought a van.
After 1 year, the value of the van was $ 39865
During this year, the value of the van decreased by 15%
Work out the value of the van when Kylie bought it.
$
is a number.
17% of N is 357
Work out the value of N
In 2019, the population of a village was 650
In 2020, the population of the village was 806
Work out the percentage increase in the population.
\%
Joshua buys a car for $ 12500
He sells the car to Nina.
Nina pays
- a deposit of $ 1500
- followed by 36 monthly payments of $ 450
Work out Joshua's percentage profit.
Sarah makes and sells mugs.
One day she makes 150 mugs.
Her total cost for making these mugs is £ 1140
Of these mugs
Here is Sarah's price list for selling each mug.
Sarah sells all 150 mugs.
Work out her percentage profit.
Give your answer correct to the nearest whole number.
On Saturday, Jacob walked 10800 steps.
On Sunday, he walked 7% more steps than on Saturday.
Work out how many steps Jacob walked on Sunday.