FAAFU ATOLL SCHOOL
GRADE :8
IGCSE Mathematics 0580
Strand: Numbers (Part-3)
Topic: Fractions, decimals, percentages
(Part 1)
Fractions,decimal&percentages
• Simplify fractions
• Operations on fractions
• Decimal and percentages
• Recurring decimals
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Simplify the fractions
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Operations on the fractions
Exercise 1
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4.
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Fractions ←→ Decimal ←→Percentages
1. Complete the diagram.
2.
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Recurring decimal
To convert a recurring decimal to a fraction using division by 9, first identify the repeating
digit(s), then write that digit(s) as the numerator over a denominator consisting of the same
number of 9s.
Representation:
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1 Write 32 cm as a fraction of 2 m.
Give your answer in its simplest form.
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[Total: 2]
2 Antonio has a shop near the beach.
(a) He makes a tally of the number of ice creams he sells on Friday.
Work out the number of ice creams he sells on Friday.
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(b) 15 of the ice creams he sells on Friday are vanilla.
Work out the fraction of ice creams he sells on Friday that are vanilla.
Give your answer in its simplest form.
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[Total: 2]
Shade some squares so that both shapes have the same fraction shaded. [2]
[Total: 2]
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4 Put a ring around the fraction that is equivalent to .
[1]
[Total: 1]
5 (a) Write down a fraction equivalent to .
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5 (b) Find a fraction that is greater than but less than .
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[Total: 2]
6 Write $24.60 as a fraction of $2870.
Give your answer in its lowest terms.
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[Total: 2]
7 Shade five-eighths of this rectangle.
[1]
[Total: 1]
8 Write 0.45 as a fraction in its simplest form.
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3
[Total: 1]
9 Write as a fraction in its simplest form.
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[Total: 1]
10
Write down the fraction of the rectangle that is shaded.
Give your answer in its simplest form.
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[Total: 2]
11 Write down a fraction that is equivalent to .
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[Total: 1]
12 Write 64% as
(a) a decimal,
Answer(a) ................................................... [1]
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(b) a fraction in its simplest form.
Answer(b) ................................................... [1]
[Total: 2]
13 Write 0.88 as a fraction in its simplest form.
Answer ................................................... [2]
[Total: 2]
14 (a) Write down the number in the list below that has the same value as .
Answer(a) ................................................... [1]
(b) Find of $208.56 .
Answer(b) $ ................................................... [1]
[Total: 2]
15 Show that 0.3 ≠ .
Answer
[1]
5
[Total: 1]
16 Write as a decimal.
Answer ................................................... [1]
[Total: 1]
17 Write the recurring decimal as a fraction.
[ means 0.3222…]
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[Total: 2]
18 Write the recurring decimal as a fraction.
Give your answer in its simplest form.
[ means 0.3666…]
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[Total: 3]
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19 Complete the table.
Fraction Decimal
[3]
[Total: 3]
20 The table gives some information about the numbers of visitors at a leisure centre one day.
Adult Child Total
Male 144 240
Female 129 260
Total 225 275 500
(a) Complete the table. [1]
(b) Work out how many more child visitors than adult visitors there are.
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(c) Write down the fraction of visitors that are adults.
Give your answer in its lowest terms.
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(d) Write the ratio number of males : number of females.
Give your answer in its simplest form.
.............................. : .............................. [2]
(e) One of these visitors is selected at random.
Find the probability that this visitor is a male child.
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[Total: 7]
21 Write down
(a) a fraction that is equivalent to ,
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(b) the 7th odd positive number,
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(c) a decimal number that is larger than 0.0467 but smaller than 0.0468 .
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[Total: 3]
22 Write the recurring decimal as a fraction.
[ means 0.2555...]
Answer .............................. [2]
[Total: 2]
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23 Write 0.13 as a fraction.
Answer ................................................... [1]
[Total: 1]
24 Write as
(a) a decimal,
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(b) a percentage.
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[Total: 2]
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Fraction Decimal Percentage
= 0.5 = 50
.................... = 0.25 = ....................
= .................... = 20
Complete the table. [3]
[Total: 3]
26 Write as a fraction in its simplest form.
(a) 72%
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(b) 0.004
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[Total: 2]
27 Write as a fraction in its simplest form.
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[Total: 1]
28 Write 0.724 as a fraction in its simplest form.
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[Total: 1]
29 Write as a fraction.
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[Total: 1]
30 (a) Write 15% as a decimal.
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30 (b) Shade 15% of this grid.
[1]
[Total: 2]
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31 Complete the table.
Fraction Decimal Percentage
= 0.75 =
= 0.2 = 20%
= = 8%
[3]
[Total: 3]
32 Write as a decimal.
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[Total: 1]
33 Write the recurring decimal as a fraction.
Show all your working.
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[Total: 2]
34 Write the recurring decimal as a fraction.
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[Total: 1]
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35 Write 0.48 as a fraction.
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[Total: 1]
36 Write 26% as a decimal.
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[Total: 1]
37 Write the recurring decimal as a fraction.
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[Total: 1]
38 Complete the table.
Fraction Percentage
= 47%
[3]
[Total: 3]
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39 Change the recurring decimal to a fraction.
You must show all your working.
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[Total: 2]
40 Write 0.007 as a fraction.
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[Total: 1]
