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Coffee Spill Mathematics

Image Source: WordPress.com There are mathematical equations for just about everything these days: there is even mathematics for carrying cups of coffee! A mathematical study has revealed that people walking with full cups of coffee will most often spill them … Continue reading

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Percentage Discounts

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Finding Percentage Amounts Using Decimals

Image Source: http://www.concordextra.co The above 45 gram Chocolate Bar contains 25% Sugar. How many Grams of Sugar are in this “Kit Kat” bar ? Using Percentages, we know that Percent means /100, and so we can set up: Grams of … Continue reading

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Percentage of Amount Using Fractions

Image Source: http://cdn.sheknows.com Let’s say we are making a Car Loan repayment, and we want to find the value of 10% of $200. We are interested in doing this because our weekly Car Loan Payment is $200 plus 10% Interest. … Continue reading

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Complementary Percentages

Image Source: http://wordpress.com In Australia there are between 50 and 100 venomous species of Spider, but only two of these are life threatening to humans: the red-back and the Sydney funnelweb spider. Based on this we could say that 3% … Continue reading

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