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To find more complicated percentages, we need to first be able to convert percentages into fractions. To do this, we take 100 as the denominator and the percentage as the numerator, so 28% = 28/100. Now w...

We can break down this question in to two parts. Firstly we should work out how much Jodie earns for the hours that she worked. Since she worked 3 hours on Saturday to work out how much she was paid we ha...

Here we have to find out the total number of CDs that the shop ordered. One box has 25 CDs and the shop has ordered 14 boxesSo, to work it out the total we have to multiply 14 by 25, this can be solved by...

Algebra is a very good way of generalising a particular scenario. For example, if you get a weekly allowance of £5 for leisure you can make an equation to calculate the amount of money you can save up in ...

1. The first step is to work out how many (1/6) there are in one whole. 6 x (1/6) = 1.
   2)The next step uses partitioning. Split the 4 & (1/2) into a separate (4) and then (1/2)
   3) Wo...