Preparing for CA2 - Maths

Dear all,
Work out these questions and write your solutions in the form.

Maths
For your homejoy on Friday, 3 August 2012
WB Pg 78 Q3, Q4
WB Pg 81 Q1
WB Pg 88 Q16, Q17
Practice Paper Q14, Q15, Q17, Q18

English
Read Straits Times on Saturday and Sunday. I will tell you what article to read.Tune in to Saturday's blog.

For the Eagles
Work out the answers to the following questions in your Maths exercise book. Copy the questions in your exercise book. Questions followed by answers.

1.There were 285 trees in Field A and 177 trees in Field B.  Some of the trees were transplanted from Field A to Field B until both fields have an equal number of trees. How many trees were transplanted from Field A to Field B?

2. Jieyun ran 7 1/4 rounds around the track.  Shafiq ran 2 1/3  more rounds than Jieyun.  How many rounds  did Shafiq run?

3. 1/9 of the fruits at a fruit stall were durians and the rest were mangosteens.  Find the total number of fruits at the fruit stall if there were 96 mangosteens.

4. Murali paid $192 for 3 belts and 3 pairs of jeans. Each pair of jeans cost thrice as much as a belt.  Calculate the difference in price between a belt and a pair of jeans.

5.   5/9 of the seats in a cinema were occupied by adults and the rest were occupied by children.  

     1/2  of the children were boys. There were 68 more adults than boys. Find the total number of people in

      the cinema.

6. Aneka saved  5/12 of her monthly salary, gave 1/5 of the remaining amount to her parents and spent the

     rest. If she gave $175 to her parents, what was Aneka’s monthly salary?

  Hope you will make good use of your time to revise for your coming examinations.

Love you,
Mrs Mak