TUTORIAL QUESTIONS

BBM, BBM BEF, BAA, BET, BFB, BIRM, BMPR & BAIT-1 2024/2025
1. State whether the following statements are true or false:
2. (i) Every rational number is a real number.
(ii) Every irrational number is a real number.
(iii) Every real number is a rational number.
(iv) 2.15̇ is a real number.
(v) 6.4343434343 . . . is an irrational number
(vi) The product of two rational numbers is rational.
(vii) The product of two odd integers is an odd integer.
3. Internet spent 5.2% of its sales on advertising. If sales amounted to $864,250. What amount
was spent on advertising?
4. Fatuma needs to buy three textbooks this semester and shops first at her college bookstore.
The cost of new books are: $195, $180, and $205. The cost of used books are: $85, $62, and
$92. Find the savings if she buys all three books used
5. The price of a mini notebook was lowered from $499 to $435. Find the decrease in price
6. A truck weighs 9250Kg when empty. After being loaded with firewood, the truck weighs
21,375 Kg. What is the weight of the firewood?

7. Mr Charles monthly used his savings to repair his car. He spent of his savings for a new
tyres, of his saving for brakes, of his savings for tune up and of his savings
for new belts. What fraction of his total savings has he spent?
8. Mr Robert went for shopping, he spent he had on clothes, of the remainder on food
stuffs and of the remainder on toys. When he completed the shopping he had a balance
of
250,000/=.Calculate a) The total amount he spent on each of the items he brought.
b) How much money he spent on each of items he bought
9. Solve for the unknown term x,
10. Convert the following to decimals. Round each to four decimals or use the repeating
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decimal notation. a)
11. Convert the following improper fractions to mixed numbers
27 27 42
a) 4 b) c)
8 7

12. Convert into the rational form: (i) 4.05, (ii) 7, (iii) 0. 3̇̇, (iv) 2.1̇5̇
13. Solve the following (i) |𝑥 − 2|< 7 (ii) |5𝑥 + 2| < 5
14. Winners pays a net price of $27.50 for a winter jacket after receiving a retail trade discount
of 45%. What was the List price of the jacket?
15. A manufacturer that sells jeans directly to its retailer’s uses market research to find out it
needs to offer a 25% trade discount. In doing so, the retailers will then be able to price the
product at a list price of $59.99. What price should retailers pay for the jeans
16. A retailer purchases supplies for its head office. If the retailer pays $16.99 for a box of
paper and was eligible for a 15% volume discount, what was the original price for the box
of paper?
17. Best Buy just acquired an HP computer for its electronics department. The net price on the
computer is $260.40 and Best Buy receives discounts of 40% and 38%.
a). What single discount is equivalent to the two discounts?
b) What is the list price?
c) What is the total discount amount?

18. 25 packets of papers purchased by a photo copier. Market price of each packet is Tsh 35000
and he got a discount of 18% and an additional discount of 5% on the cash payment. Find
the value of the deal.
19. A company offers buy three pens and get four. Convert this offer of quantity discount into
equivalent discount rate.
20. An advertisement claims that at 60% off, you are saving $18. However, today there is an
additional 20% off. What price should you pay for this item? What percent savings does
this represent?
21. Josephine is a sales representative for Kraft Foods. Over the past two weeks, she closed
$325,000 in retail distribution contracts. Calculate the total gross earnings that Josephine
earns if
a) She is paid a straight commission of 3.45%.
b) She is paid 2% for sales on the first $100,000, 3% on the next $100,000, and 4% on all
remaining sales
c) She is paid a base salary of $2,000 plus a commission of 3.5% on all sales above
$100,000

22. Sheila is a life insurance agent. Her company pays her based on the annual premiums of
the customers that purchase life insurance policies. In the last month, Sheila's new
customers purchased policies worth $35,550 annually. If she receives 10% commission on
the first $10,000 of premiums and 20% on the rest, what are her total gross earnings for the
month?
23. Reduce the following ratios to their lowest terms: a.) 49: 21 b). 0.33: 0.066 c.) d.)
5⅛ : 6⅞
24. With the help of 40 workers a manufacturer decides to produce 200 units. Workers work 6
hours in a day. If 60 workers can work 4 hours in a day then how many units they can
produce?

25. A recent article reported that companies in a certain industry were averaging an operating
profit of $23,000 per 10 full-time employees. A marketing manager wants to estimate the
operating profitability for one of her company's competitors, which employs 87 full-time
workers. What is the estimated operating profit for that competitor?
26. A person bought a T.V set at cost of 1,500,000 and sold it at a profit of 25%. Find the profit
and selling price of T.V
27. Find Charles Peterson’s rate of change (R). Charles sold 30 homes last year and 36 this
year.
28. A company had sales of $200,000 this month and $160,000 last month. Find both the
amount of increase and the rate of increase.
29. Suppose a coca cola company allocate TZS 800,000,000 for advertising, research and
investment in the ratio 8:5:3. How much money will be located for each?
30. A business spends $180,000 on advertising, $120,000 on research and development
$150,000 on office rent. Find the ratios between these expenses.
31. A, B and C are partners in a firm. Their contributions are as follows: A contributes
T.shs100, 000,000. B contributes T.shs 80,000,000 and C contributes Tshs.40, 000,000.
They share profit according to the ratio of their capitals. If total profit for a year is Tshs
6,600,000. Find out the share of each partner.