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  3.  Round off the following numbers to three significant digits: 1) 120000 _______________                     2) 4.53619 _______________ 3) 5.457 _______________                          4) 43.659 _______________ ****** Part 2 ******  (a) Round 0.709 to one significant figure .......................... (b) Round 84472 to three significant figures .......................... (c) Round 12490 to two significant figures .......................... (d) Round 5607012 to three significant figures .......................... (e) Round 0.123456 to four significant figures Part 3  A Sad Song About Greenwich Village She lives in a garret Up a haunted stair, And even when she’s frightened There’s nobody to care. She cooks so small a dinner She dines on the smell, And even if she’s hungry There’s nobody to tell. She sweeps her musty lodging As the dawn steals near, And even when she’s crying There’s nobody to hear. I haven’t seen my neighbor Since a long time ago, And even if she’s dead There’s nob

  1 Jack is paid $18.50 an hour for a 35 hour week. What is his normal weekly wage?  2 For a 38 hour week Jill is paid $836. Find her hourly rate of pay. 3. Jill has a casual job from 4:00 p.m till 5:30 p.m Monday to Friday. She also works from 9 a.m till 12:30 p.m on Saturday. Find her weekly income if her casual rate is $9.80 per hour Monday to Friday, and $14.70 an hour on Saturday 4. A printer is advertised for sale at J$84 000. A discount of 12% is given if it is bought for cash. It can also be bought on hire purchase by paying a deposit of J$29 400 followed by 24 monthly payments of J$2300 each. Calculate (a) the cash price, (b) the hire purchase price, (c) the amount saved by buying the printer for cash rather than on hire purchase. 5.  The marked price of a stove was $520. A worker bought the stove on hire-purchase by making a down payment of $100, and twelve monthly payments of $40 each. How much could she have saved if she had bought the stove for the marked price? (A) $ 40

Z'nia: https://www.mathsgenie.co.uk/resources/83_compound-interest-and-depreciation.pdf     Appreciation and Depreciation Appreciation is the increase of the value of something over time. Depreciation, on the other hand, is the opposite- it is the decrease of value of something over time. The value of houses or assets over time, since a house or property will appreciate the longer you own it. A car, however, depreciates over time when bough from new due to wear and tear. ***********                    **************               ************** (1 year Depreciation) 1. A machine costing $ 286,000 depreciates at 5% per annum.  i.  Calculate the amount by which it depreciates.  ii. Calculate its new value iii.  2. A boat is bought for £30000. It depreciates at a rate of 5% per year. i.  Calculate the amount by which it depreciates.  ii. Calculate its new value after 2 years 1.  The price of a machine depreciates by 10% every year. If the present value of the machine is $100,000, w

  CLASSWORK Identify FOUR types of services provided by commercial banks. i. Outline THREE characteristics of a credit union. ii.  Define the term ' budgeting'. iii. State TWO purposes of budgeting. -----------------               ------------------          -----------------          ------------------          --------------- Sources of Fi n a n ce  https://www.gcsebusiness.com/uploads/2/6/7/8/26787454/sources_of_finance_presentation_notes_1.pdf   Pages: pages 1, 2, 4, 8, 9, 10, 12, 13, 14, 15, 18, 27, 28, 29, 33 Homework:  1. Paul’s taxi business has now been operating for two years. He wants to expand by buying another taxi and employing two drivers on a shift system.  a) What source of finance is suitable for Paul’s business?  b) When would you advise Paul to take out a bank loan to expand his business? 2.Company A is a Private limited company that sells fashion clothing. It needs $15,000 to decorate its shop.  a) Advise Company A on the source of finance that would be sui

Read the passage below and answer the questions that follow. Remember to always answer questions in a complete sentence.                                                                                                                                                                         Poverty Five times a day, the crowd of students flocked around the window through which the caretaker sold her cakes, then broke up in the yard to play and walk about, while heartily biting into long pieces of a type of gingerbread with jam. And five times a day I was forced to endure this spectacle without participating in it. I never had a cent to my name. I was forced to stand in the background, and the sight of those cakes the pupils bought in a joyous uproar and devoured greedily and freely about me, overwhelmed me with passionate desire. Thus I began filling myself with water from the tap, in a corner of the yard and, every now and then, I returned to it, trying to drown my stomach to keep it qui