The list price of a TV set is $325, but the retailer offers successive discounts of 20% and 30%.What price does a customer actually pay?
Answer(s): A
The first discount of 20% means that a customer actually pays 80% (or 4/5) of the list price. The second successive discount of 30% means that a customer actually pays 70% (or 3/10) of the price determined after the first discount.The price the customer actually pays is the list price multiplied by the portions determined from each discount.
A certain brand of motor oil is regularly sold at a price of two cans holding a quart each for $1.99. On a special sale, a carton containing six quart cans is sold for $5.43.What is the saving per quart if the oil is bought at the special sale price?
Answer(s): B
At 2 quarts for $1.99, each quart costs $0.995. At 6 quarts for $5.43, each quart costs $0.905.$0.995 - $0.905 = $0.905
A company spends 3/5 of its advertising budget on newspaper ads and 1/3 on radio commercials.What portion of the advertising budget is left for TV commercials?
Answer(s): C
Add the portion spent on newspaper ads and radio commercials.3/5 + 1/3 = 9/15 + 5/15 = 14/15.The portion left for TV commercials is the entire budget, 1, minus portion spent on newspaper and radio 14/15.1 - 14/15 = 15/15 14/15 = 1/15
At Joe's Restaurant, one-fourth of the patrons are male and one-fifth of the patrons are from out of town.What proportion would you expect to be male and out of town?
If one-fourth of the patrons are male, then you would expect one-fourth of the out-of-town patrons to be male.One fourth of one-fifth is 1/20.
There are 112 males and 78 females working at a hospital.What percentage of the hospitals workforce is female?
Answer(s): D
Add the number of men and women to get the total number: 190. The number of women, 78, so divide 78 by 190 (78/190) to get 0.4105. Then multiply by 100 to convert it to a percentage and you have 41%.
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