IGCSE Math B 1.G Units, measures and money Topic Practice

When it is 9.42 am in London, it is 2.12 pm the same day in Delhi.
It is 10.15 am in Delhi.
Find the time in London.

Adam's weight is 190 pounds.
Given that 1 pound =0.454 kilograms,
calculate Adam's weight in kilograms.

Lauren owns a Shetland pony.
She uses this rule to calculate how much food to give her pony each day.

Give 8 grams of food for each kilogram of the pony's weight.

Lauren's pony's weight is 180 kg .

Calculate the weight, in grams, of food that Lauren must give her pony each day.

Express $7\frac12$ minutes as a fraction of 24 hours.
Give your answer in its simplest form.

The manufacturer's price for a Jinko car is $ x
Ben was given a 7% discount on the manufacturer's price when he bought a Jinko. Ben paid $ 23622 when he bought his Jinko.

During the year that Ben owned the Jinko, he travelled d km in the car.
The average fuel consumption of the car was 10 km per litre.
The average cost of the fuel he used was $\$1.40$ per litre.
Other costs for the car in the year came to $\$938$.
The cost per km, including the loss in value, of his Jinko to Ben during the year that he owned the car was $\$0.40$.

Calculate the value of d.

Write 48 seconds as a fraction of 1 day.
Give your answer in its simplest form.

On Monday, Tisam buys 600 watermelons in India to sell in the UK.
On Tuesday, Tisam splits 200 of the watermelons each into 8 slices.
She sells each slice for £0.60.
She sells all the slices by the end of the day.

On Wednesday, Tisam sells $60\%$ of the remaining watermelons.
She sells them for £1.40 each.

Tisam gives away for free the watermelons she has left.
Tisam bought the 600 watermelons at a cost of 90 rupees each.
The cost to send the watermelons to the UK was £700.
Using an exchange rate of
$$1\text{ rupee}=£0.0097,$$
answer parts (a) to (c).

Work out how much money Tisam receives from the sale of the watermelon slices on Tuesday.

On a journey of 960 kilometres, David's car used 91 litres of petrol.
Given that 4.55 litres =1 gallon, calculate the number of kilometres per gallon that David's car used on the journey.
kilometres per gallon

In June 2014,
the exchange rate from pounds sterling ( £ ) to US dollars ( $ ) was £ 1.00=$ 1.72 the price of a barrel of oil was $ 115.00

In November 2014,
the exchange rate from £ to $ was £ 1.00=$ 1.60
the price of a barrel of oil was $ 84.00

Inzamam cycles 6.4 km from his home to school.
He leaves home at 0740 and arrives at school at 0820
Calculate his average speed, in km/h, for the journey.
km/h