. Change 5/8 into:

(i) percentage. 

(ii) decimal 

In a sales promotion, the price of a shirt costing shs. 15,000/= is reduced by 15%. What is the new price of the shirt?

Mr. Magani set an examination weighing a total of 96 marks with the following distribution: 20% of the marks were awarded for reading, 40% for writing, 15% for practical and the remaining percentage for spelling. Find the marks that were awarded for spelling. 

Mary was given 60,000 shillings by her mother. She spent 35 percent of the money to buy shoes and 10 percent of the remaining money to buy books. How much money remained?

In Mpitimbi village 70% of 1200 cows are black and 22.3% of 18000 goats are white. Find the sum of black cows and white goats.

What percent of 1 hour is 15 minutes? 

Subtract  of Tsh. 270,000 from 36% of Tsh. 50,000.

.In a certain animal farm 10% of the animals are horses, are goats, 0.15 are sheep and are cattle. Arrange these numbers in ascending order.

Express 0.05473

(i) correct to three (3) significant figures

(ii) correct to three (3) decimal places

(iii) in standard form.

Write 624.3278 correct to:

1. five (5) significant figures
2. three (3) decimal places.

A certain worker used his salary as follows: 20% on house rent, 45% on food, 10% on refreshment and 15% on school fees. If he/she was left with Tsh.22,000, determine:

1. The salary of this worker.
2. The amount of money which he/she spent on food. (6 marks)

Find the percentage of numbers which are multiples of 5 from the set [1, 2, 3, 4, . . . . . . up to 52] . Write the answer correct to one decimal place

In a class of 40 students, 5 of them are absent. What percent is present?

Convert  into a repeating decimal.

If 0.125 of all students in a mixed class are girls, what percentage of students are boys?