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Practice Book UNIT 9 Fractions and Percentages Answers

9.1 Revision of Operations with Fractions

5 5 1 8 2 16 3
1. (a) (b) or 1 (c) (d) (e) or 1
7 4 4 9 5 13 13
11 4 2 1 5
(f) or 1 (g) (h) (i)
7 7 7 3 13

5 12 9 7 1 47 7
2. (a) (b) (c) (d) or 1 (e) or 1
6 35 20 6 6 40 40
31 11 23 2 10 1 7
(f) or 1 (g) or 1 (h) or 1 (i)
20 20 21 21 9 9 8

4 5 2 1
3. (a) 4 (b) 8 (c) 5 (d) 4 (e) 6 (f) 9
5 6 5 7
3 13 2
(g) 7 (h) 7 (i) 6
8 21 9

1 1 6 14 3
4. (a) 1 (b) 1 (c) (d) (e) or 1
2 8 7 8 4
5 5 41 13 19 7
(f) (g) 1 (h) or 2 (i) or 1
6 9 14 14 12 12

5. (a) £5 (b) 6 kg (c) £24 (d) 72 kg

(e) 35 kg (f) 7.5 m (g) £21.60 (h) 29.4 m
1 3 2 4 3 12
6. (a) (b) (c) (d) (e) (f)
8 40 5 7 5 35
3 4 1
(g) (h) (i)
8 21 10

3 27 3 7 2 5 1
7. (a) (b) (c) (d) or 1 (e) or 1
2 32 4 5 5 4 4
40 9 2 16 5
(f) (g) or 1 (h) (i)
63 7 7 21 4

9 1 5 3 15 7 4 1
8. (a) or 1 (b) 1 (c) (d) (e) or 1 (f) or 1
8 8 6 8 8 8 3 3

27 3
9. (a) 2 (b) 7 (c) or 3
8 8
45 5 39 7
(d) 14 (e) or 5 (f) or 4
8 8 8 8

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9.1 Answers

9 1 11 1 16 7
10. (a) or 1 (b) or 5 (c) or 1
8 8 2 2 9 9

5 1 14 4 7 1
11. (a) or 2 (b) or 2 (c) or 2
2 2 5 5 3 3

65 9 15 1 25 1 7 1
12. (a) or 2 (b) or 1 (c) or 2 (d) or 3
28 28 14 14 12 12 2 2
25 1
(e) 4 (f) or 1
24 24

9.2 Fractions in Context

19 8 3 21 3
1. (a) (b) (c) 6 (d) 3 (e) (f)
28 21 4 32 10
1 7 8 9 1 1
(g) 10 (h) 1 (i) 6 (j) (k) 8 (l) 2
2 8 21 10 3 10

2. (a) Converts to fraction in simplest form.

(b) Converts to mixed number in simplest form.
3 9 1 4 2
(c) same; → 4 ; → ;
7 2 2 6 3
6 1 10 1 3
→ 1 ; → 3 ; same
4 2 3 3 10

1 2 1 1 2 7
3. (a) Area = m , perimeter = 2 m (b) Area = 3 m , perimeter = 7 m
3 3 4 10
4. 320 pupils

5. (a) 5 discs (b) 4 discs (c) 100 discs

7 2
6. (a) 8 cakes (b) 16 cakes (c) 1 cake ( 1 ) (d) 2 cakes ( 2 )
9 3
5
(e) 4 cakes (f) 3 cakes ( 3 )
7
52 7
7. x= or 3
15 15

1 1 7 3
8. cm (b) 1 cm (c) cm (d) 1 cm
2 2 8 4
1
360 sheets in pile of paper 4 cm high
2

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9.2 Answers

9. 280 drinks

21 27 11 157
10. Volume = × × = 38 cm 3
5 8 4 160

9.3 Conversion of Fractions and Percentages

1 3 2 1 1 1
1. (a) (b) (c) (d) (e) (f)
2 4 5 4 5 10
2 29 9 16 19 3
(g) (h) (i) (j) (k) (l)
25 50 25 25 25 25

2. (a) 70% (b) 50% (c) 25% (d) 75% (e) 35% (f) 24%
(g) 95% (h) 68% (i) 60% (j) 20% (k) 55% (l) 14%

1 2 1 29 37 17
3. (a) (b) (c) (d) (e) (f)
8 3 3 200 200 400

1 2 1
4. (a) 12 % (b) 16 % (c) 37 %
2 3 2
1 1 2
(d) 23 % (e) 30 % (f) 66 %
2 2 3

5. 32%

6. 40%

1
7. 62 %
2

8. (a) 25% (b) 75%

1 2
9. (a) 33 % (b) 66 %
3 3
10. (a) Science 75%; Maths 75%; English 76%; French 70%
(b) Average 74%

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9.4 Finding Percentages

1. (a) £11 (b) 7 m (c) £15 (d) 24 m (e) £24 (f) 45 kg
1
(g) £22.50 (h) 1 kg (i) 9.6 kg (j) £6.40 (k) 5.6 m (l) £7
2
2. (a) £35 (b) £52.50 (c) £7 (d) £5.25 (e) £4.90 (f) £6.65

3. (a) £4.375 (b) To the nearest pence £4.38

4. (a) £2.63 (b) £13.13 (c) £1.23 (all to the nearest pence)

5. £18

6. (a) £157.50 (b) £1057.50

7. 48

8. (a) £62 (b) £124

9. 238 pupils

10. 42 marks

9.5 Increasing and Decreasing Quantities by a Percentage

1. (a) £44 (b) £149.60 (c) £288.20

2. (a) £40 (b) £73.60 (c) £272

3. (a) 52 m (b) £63 (c) £79.20 (d) 112 kg (e) £1300

(f) £45 (g) 66.5 kg (h) £76.50 (i) 42.8 m (j) £18.72

4. £480

5. Box of chocolates £3.12 £3.12

Flour £0.78 78p
Sweets £0.52 52p
Beans £0.21 21p
Drink £0.47 47p

6. £67.50

7. £192

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9.5 Answers

8. (a) £470 (b) £25.85 (c) 76.38

9. 126 000 people

10. (a) End 1st year 800 × 1.05 = £840

End 2nd year 840 × 1.05 = £882
(b) £1021.03 (nearest pence)

11. (a) 1.1 (b) 1.1 × 1.1 = 1.21 (c) 1.1n (d) 8 years

9.6 Finding the Percentage Increase and Decrease

1. 10%

2. 20%

3. 3%

4. 25% (note that this is profit of 20p on selling price of 80p)

5. 15%

6. 6% (nearest %)

7. 18.75% = 18.8% (1 d.p.)

8. 27.3% (3 s.f.)

9. 1.33% (3 s.f.)

10. (a) 5% (b) 7.00% (2 d.p.) (c) 12.35% (2 d.p.)

9.7 Reverse Percentage Calculations

1. Jeans £45
Coat £70
Shirt £17.50

2. £12 000

3. 43p

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9.7 Answers

4. 450 gm

5. £25

6. 22 cm

7. £21 000

8. £165.71 (nearest pence)

9. 14 cm

10. £1885.71 (nearest pence)

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