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This question allows you to practice working out a fraction of an amount.

It is designed for you to complete without a calculator.

These are worded questions on percentages.  They can be done without a calculator.

These questions are asking you to use a non-calculator method to work out a percentage amount of a value.

Given percentages of males and females working on a project, and the percentage of the total staff who are male (or female), find the percentage of all staff working on the project.

Based on question 3 from section 3 of the maths-aid workbook on numerical reasoning.

Added to calculator test.

Added advice on using decimals.

Scale a page to some percentage of its original size, then increase/decrease by another percentage. Find the size of the final copy as a percentage of the original.

Based on question 2 from section 3 of the Maths-Aid workbook on numerical reasoning.

(Added a decimal version to advice - and changed increased to enlarged)

Used in non-calculator quiz.

Given the stakes of three people in a lottery syndicate, and the amount the syndicate won, work out each person's share of the winnings.

Based on question 4 from section 3.2 of the Maths-Aid workbook on numerical reasoning.

(Used in Non-Calculator test.)

Given the selling price of an item both as a cash amount and as a percentage of the cost of production, find the cost of production and the profit.

Based on question 1 from section 3 of the Maths-Aid workbook on numerical reasoning.

Added to Calculator test.

Given an annual salary, tax allowance, tax rate and pension deduction, work out a person's take-home pay per month.

Used in Calculator Test.

6 questions on numerical reasoning using percentages and ratios.

Questions about percentage and ratio, applied to finance.

Based on section 3.2 of the Maths-Aid workbook on numerical reasoning.

Non-calculator percentage increase and decrease calculations.

Scale a page to some percentage of its original size, then increase/decrease by another percentage. Find the size of the final copy as a percentage of the original.

Based on question 2 from section 3 of the Maths-Aid workbook on numerical reasoning.

Given percentages of males and females working on a project, and the percentage of the total staff who are male (or female), find the percentage of all staff working on the project.

Based on question 3 from section 3 of the maths-aid workbook on numerical reasoning.

Questions about percentage change.

Simple Percentages

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Simpel percentages practice

If _% of a number is__. What is _% of that number.

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This question will help you practice converting between fractions and percentages

A variety of worded fraction questions.

Profit and Loss, Percentages

Changed to £.

Finding surface area and volume, given formulae.

Find a% of b using a calculator. Suggested method to use decimal equivalent.

Understanding order of operations on a calculator and using power and root keys.

Testing addition, multiplication and division involving negative numbers.

Addition, subtraction and multiplication of 2 x 2 matrices and multiplication by a scalar.

(Last three parts of original question removed.)

Shows how to define variables to stop degenerate examples.

Converting binary number to decimal.

Finding surface area and volume; formulae not given.

Finding equation of a straight line graph and a parallel line through a given point.

This task is part of a set of three assessment tasks for 7.RP.2.

7.RP.2 Robot Races asks students to "explain what a point (x,y) on the graph of a proportional relationship means in terms of the situation" and to "compute unit rates associated with ratios of fractions." Students also need to compare the speeds of the robots.

Given two ordered sets of vectors $S,\;T$ in $\mathbb{R^5}$ find the reduced echelon form of the matrices given by $S$ and $T$ and hence determine whether or not they span the same subspace.