A machine that costs sh. 180,000 was sold at a profit of 40%. Find the selling price.

A father divided sh. 150,000 among Rose and Japheth in the ratio 2:3 respectively. How much money did each get?

A lady buys a printer for sh.26000 and when she sells it she realizes a loss of 40%. How much did she sell the printer for?

An article was sold for shs 160,000 at a profit of 25%. Find the buying price of the article.

A school has 2,000 students, of whom 1,500 are boys. What is the ratio of boys to girls in the school?

Matiku bought a book for Tshs. 120,000. A year later, he sold the book at a profit of 20%. What was the selling price of the book?

Misumbwi, Shuma and Kiyando contributed 770,000, 560,000 and 1,050,000

shillings respectively to start a business. Find the ratio of their contribution in its simplest form.

George and Asha shared 35 mangoes in the ratio 2:3. How many mangoes did each get?

 Kitwana paid Tshs 900,000 for a desktop computer and sold it the following year for Tshs  720,000. Find:

1.  The loss made, 
2. The percentage loss.

 7 A computer is advertised in a shop as having a list price of sh. 2,500,000 plus value added tax (VAT) of 20%. The sales manager offers a discount of 25% before adding the VAT. Calculate:

The list price including VAT.

(b)  The amount of discount before VAT is added.

(c)  The reduced final price of the computer.

Mariam, Selina and Moses contributed 800,000, 1,200,000 and 850,000 shillings respectively while starting their business.

(i)  Find the ratio of their contributions in simplest form.

(ii)  If the business made a profit of 1,900,000 shillings; find how much each got if the profit was shared in the same ratio as their contributions.

  A dealer bought 10 books for 200,000. He sold ²₅ of them at 30,000 shillings each and the remaining at 25,000 shillings each. What was his percentage profit?

A real estate agent received a 6% discount on the selling price of a house. If the discount was Tshs. 888,000 what was the selling price of the house?

A shopkeeper makes a 20% profit by selling a radio for sh. 480,000.

(i)  Find the ratio of the buying price to the selling price.

(ii)  If the radio would be sold at 360,000, what would be the percentage loss?

Find the number of years in which Tshs. 20,000 will earn an interest of Tshs. 4,800 if the interest rate is 4% per annum.

Merina bought a bicycle for 75,000/= and sold it after two years at a loss of 25 percent. Calculate the amount of the loss.

A car which its buying price was shs 12,500,000 was sold at a loss of 20 percent. Find the loss made and selling price.

By selling an article at shs 22,500/= a shopkeeper makes loss of 10%. At what price must the shopkeeper sell the article in order to get a profit of 10%?

Maulid has to share eighty books with his young sisters Arafa and Jamila. He decided that for every two books Jamila gets, Arafa gets three books and he gets five books. Find the number of books each gets

Kieku has to share 80 books with his younger sisters Upendo and Okuli. He decided that for every 2 books that Okuli gets, Upendo gets 3 and he gets 5 books. Find the number of books each gets.

.Kapona bought a computer for 250,000/= and sold it after one years at a loss of 5 percent. Calculate the amount of the loss.

A radio is bought for sh 400,000 and sold for sh 500,000. Find:

(i) The profit made

(ii) The percentage profit.

Find the time in which sh 300,000 will earn an interest of sh 60,000 if the interest rate is 10% per annum.

By selling an article at shs. 22,500/= a shopkeeper makes a loss of 10%. At what price must the shopkeeper sell the article in order to get a profit of 10% ?

An alloy consists of three metals A, B and C in the proportion A : B = 3 : 5 and B : C = 7 : 6 Calculate the proportion A : C.

The ratio of men : women : children living in Mkuza village is 6 : 7 : 3. If there are 42,000 women, find how many:

(a) (i) children live in Mkuza village

(ii) people altogether live in Mkuza village.

(b) The 42,000 women is an increase of 20% on the number of women 10 years ago. How many women lived in the village?

An amount of Tshs. 12,000 is to be shared among Ali, Anna and Juma in the ratio 2:3:5 respectively. How much will each get?

A damaged table that costs Tshs. 20,000 was sold at a loss of 15%. Find the loss made and the selling price.

Find the time in which sh. 200,000 will earn sh. 48,000 at the rate of 4% interest per annum.

Mr. and Mrs. Juma deposited some money in a bank that pays a simple interest ol' 3% per annum. After 4 years they earned an interest of 900,000 shillings. Determine the amount of money: 

(i) deposited initially. 

(ii) accumulated after a period of four years. 

Find the simple interest on sh. 10,000,000 invested for 5 years at the rate of 6% per annum.