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General Mathematics Paper 2, Nov/Dec. 2008  
Questions: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 Main
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Question 7

(a) When the marked price of an article is D600, the profit is 25%.               
Calculate the:  
(i) cost price;
(ii) actual profit if 6% cash discount is offered.

  1. Isatu walks a distance of 1.5km to school everyday; her rate of walking being always constant. On a certain day, owing to ill health, she had to reduce her walking rate by 0.5km/h and as a result, she took extra 6 minutes to reach the school than usual. Find the normal average rate at which Isatu walks to school
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Observation

This was another unpopular question among the candidates and their performance in it was not encouraging.  However, candidates performed better in part (a) than in part (b).
In part (a), the cost price is given by

Profit        x  100  =  25  from where we obtain the cost price as N480
Cost price     1
       
The selling price when a discount of 6% is given = 94/100 x 600/1 = N 564.00. Therefore, actual profit = N 564 –
N 480 = N 84.00

One of their problems in part (b) is that they did not change the time to one unit, either hours or minutes.  Many used the two units together.  Some who changed 6 minutes to 0.1 hour could not handle the multiplication of decimals hence, could not arrive at the correct normal average rate which was 3km/h.
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