Activity 4

Activity 4

1. Calculate: 1.1. 35% of R1 500 1.2. 33⅓% of R4 500

2. Megan gets 46 for a Geography test. What is her percentage? (Round off

75 your answer to the nearest whole number.) 3. A shop assistant forgot to add VAT when she calculated the price of several items. The following items must be recalculated: Chocolate bars at R6,25 Sweets at R3,45 Chips at R4,20 Soft drink cans at R5,85 Calculate the correct new price of each item. VAT is 14%. 4. JC buys a second-hand motorcycle at R25 000, which includes 14% VAT. What would the cost have been before VAT was added? 5. The price of petrol decreases with 1,3%. We now pay R12,34 per litre. How much did we previously pay per litre? 6. A handbag that was sold at R235,00 is now selling for R135,00. Calculate the percentage discount to the nearest whole number. 7. What percentage is 36 minutes of an hour? 8. A bag of groceries costs R456,00 after an inflation increase. If the inflation increase was 6,5%, what would the cost of the bag of groceries have been before the increase? 9. A certain company has 312 employees, of which 176 are female. What percentage of the employees are male? Round off to the nearest whole number. 10. Thabiseng now earns R15 457,00 per month. Previously, she earned R14 450. The average annual salary increase for the company was 5%. Show by calculation that Thabiseng’s new salary is in line with the company average.