AMITY UNIVERSITY TASHKENT

Course Name: Basic Numeracy Skills Name: ______________________________________

Course Code: IFP103 Enrollment Number: ___________________________

Assignment 1 Section:______________________________________

Q1. A person who has a certain amount with him goes to market. He can buy 50 oranges or 40
mangoes. He retains 10% of the amount for taxi fares and buys 20 mangoes and of the balance, he
purchases oranges. How many oranges he can purchase?
Q2. Forty per cent of the employees of a certain company are men and 75% of the men earn more
than Rs. 25,000 per year. If 45% of the company’s employees earn more than Rs. 25,000 per year,
what fraction of the women employed by the company earn Rs. 25,000 or less per year?
Q3. Class B has 50% more students than class A. Number of girls in class A is equal to number of
boys in class B. The percentage of girls is the same in both classes. What percentage of the student
group are boys?
Q4. Traders A and B buy two goods for Rs. 1000 and Rs. 2000 respectively. Trader A marks his
goods up by x%, while trader B marks his goods up by 2x% and offers a discount of x%. If both
make the same non-zero profit, find x.
Q5. a is x % of b, b is x% more than a. Find x.
Q6. A two digit number ab is 60% of x. The two-digit number formed by reversing the digits of
ab is 60% more than x. Find x.
Q7. A is x % more than B. B is y % less than C. If A, B and C are positive and A is greater than
C, find the relation between x and y.
Q8. An alloy of copper and aluminum has 40% copper. An alloy of Copper and Zinc has Copper
and Zinc in the ratio 2: 7. These two alloys are mixed in such a way that in the overall alloy, there
is more aluminum than Zinc, and copper constitutes x% of this alloy. What is the range of values
x can take?
Q9. B as a percentage of A is equal to A as a percentage of (A+B). Find B as a percentage of A.
Q10. If the price of petrol increases by 25% and Raj intends to spend only an additional 15% on
petrol, by how much will he reduce the quantity of petrol purchased?