Unit 8 Lesson 2: Exercise 4

1)10% of a day is the same as x hours and y minutes. Find the value of x and y.

2)Elvis scored 93% in a test marked out of 500. How many questions did Elvis score correct out of the 500?

3)An art class of 25 students had 4% of them absent due to an outbreak of flu. How many students were present?

4) A stage show will break even if 70% of the seats are occupied. For a theatre holding 2000 people, how many seats need to be filled?

5)Lee spends 24% of a typical day in front of the television or home computer. How many hours and minutes(to the nearest miutes) of the day does he spend in front of these appliances?

6)At a local hospital, 49.5% of all births are female in every given month. 90 newborns are expected at the hospital this month. Of these, how many are expected to be female?

7)Buying a $280 bicycle, James paid a deposit of 15% of the purchase price. What is the balance left to be paid?

8)At the end of every year, Sunbeam Publication shares 25% of the average monthly profit for the year as Christmas bonus for the employees.  What bonuses would go with the following average monthly profits?         a) $106,160                        b) $922,240

9)The annual profit made in a bookshop is $600,000 plus 20% of the total sales for that year. Find the profit made by the bookshop last year if the total sales for last year was $6,175,000.

10)If 10% of x equals y, what is x% of 10?