4 simple questions....but can you get them?
1: A school raised $100 for the Red Cross. The eighth grade class raised $38.48. Express, to the nearest tenth, the percent raised by the eighth grade class.
27.5%
30%
38.5%
42%
2: A baseball player got 67 hits out of 210 times at bat. Express his batting success as a decimal correct to the nearest thousandth.
0.3340000000000000190958360235...
0.3190000000000000057731597280...
0.2959999999999999853450560749...
0.2869999999999999773514502976...
3: A company paid the government a surplus tax of 3/4% on certain parts of its sales. If the tax was $15,000, how much were the sales represented by this payment?
$20,000
$17,500
$2,000,000
$22,500
4: A newspaper said, "The profits in a certain investment will drop 1.83% below last year." What drop is this on an investment of $15,000,000?
$8,197,261
$1,560,700
$640,440
$274,500
2006-10-31 08:41:29 · 6 answers · asked by Anonymous in Science & Mathematics ➔ Mathematics
1) 38.5
2) 0.319
3) $2,000,000
4) $274,500
2006-10-31 08:46:20 · answer #1 · answered by disposable_hero_too 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
1: A school raised $100 for the Red Cross. The eighth grade class raised $38.48. Express, to the nearest tenth, the percent raised by the eighth grade class.
27.5%
30%
38.5%
42%
$38.48/$100*100%=38.48% or rounded to 38.5%
2: A baseball player got 67 hits out of 210 times at bat. Express his batting success as a decimal correct to the nearest thousandth.
0.3340000000000000190958360235...
0.3190000000000000057731597280...
0.2959999999999999853450560749...
0.2869999999999999773514502976...
67/210=.31905... 2nd 1 is the closest
3: A company paid the government a surplus tax of 3/4% on certain parts of its sales. If the tax was $15,000, how much were the sales represented by this payment?
$20,000
$17,500
$2,000,000
$22,500
$15000/.0075=$2,000,000
4: A newspaper said, "The profits in a certain investment will drop 1.83% below last year." What drop is this on an investment of $15,000,000?
$8,197,261
$1,560,700
$640,440
$274,500
$15,000,000*.0183=$274,500
2006-10-31 09:26:32 · answer #2 · answered by yupchagee 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
1: 38.5%
2: .319...
3: $20,000
4: $274,500
2006-10-31 08:48:16 · answer #3 · answered by charlottesamanthamirandacarrie 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes, very basic maths.
2006-10-31 08:43:37 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
1) 38.5
2) 0.319
3) $2,000,000
4) $274,500
2006-10-31 09:49:02 · answer #5 · answered by God R 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
124
424
5353
512550000
2006-10-31 09:02:39 · answer #6 · answered by J 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋