Do you know your math?
Questions where taken from a School Article, about parents not knowing todays math.
1. In ten years a man's weekly salary increased from $45 to $88. What percent of increase was this to the nearest tenth?
1. 95.6%
2. 90%
3. 88%
4. 93.4%
2. Tom, who weighed 112 pounds, gained 5 pounds. To the nearest tenth of a percent, what was his percent of increase in weight?
1. 4.5%
2. 5.3%
3. 6.7%
4. 7%
3. A cost-of-living increase was reported as 2.3%. If the number was determined by an increase of $17 on $750, was it correctly reported?
1. Yes
2. No
3. Both
4. Neither
4. The population of a city in 1950 was 424,683. In 1940 it was 386,972. Find the percent of increase in population correct to the nearest tenth.
1. 6.7%
2. 8.8%
3. 9.7%
4. 11.6%
5. An airline reported that the number of passengers carried in one year was 472,968 and the next year it was 502,218. Find to the nearest tenth the percent of increase in the number of passengers
1. 4.9%
2. 5.4%
3. 6.2%
4. 7%
2006-11-16
06:20:59
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