Exam 1: Review of Arithmetic

The city of Toronto had a property tax rate of approximately 1.529% on multiresidential buildings in 2015. If a multiresidential building had an estimated value of $ 12 500 000, how much property tax did the building's owners have to pay?

Phil works for a hydro company in a 35 hour work week schedule. His contract pays him $1345/week for working Monday to Friday, 7 hours a day. If he spends more time than his usual time, he is entitled to "time and a half" on time worked in excess of 7 hours per day. If he works on Sundays or statutory holidays, he is entitled to twice the time. Calculate his gross earnings for the month of October 2013, if he worked for 5 hours on Thanksgiving Day in addition to his regular hours for the month.

Jigger is planning to buy a house. He has two options. A 2400 sq. ft. bungalow in Whitby costs $389 000. A similar size house costs $369 000 in Oshawa. Jigger plans to base his decision on the cost of property tax paid. Whitby charges the property tax at the mill rate of 13.59815, whereas Oshawa charges the property tax at the mill rate of 16.18347. Where will Jigger end up paying less tax and likely buy the home?

Extend each of the following and determine the total.

Evaluate: 395(2 + .15 ∗ 290/365)

Kim Farrena earns $17.60 per hour. Overtime from Monday to Friday is paid at time and one-half regular pay for any hours over 7 1/2 per day. Overtime on weekends is paid at double the regular rate of pay. Last week Kim worked regular hours on Monday, Wednesday, and Friday, 8.5 hours on Tuesday, 11.75 hours on Thursday, and 5 hours on Saturday. Determine Kim's gross wages by each of the two methods.

Suppose you went shopping and bought bulk laundry detergent worth $11.65. You then received a $1.50 trade discount, and had to pay a $2.10 shipping charge. Find the total purchase price of the detergent in Nova Scotia.

Evaluate: 400(1 + .10 ∗ 100/365)

September is paid on a weekly commission basis. She is paid a base salary of $370.00 on a weekly quota of $9500.00 and a commission of 5.75% on any sales in excess of the quota. a) If September's sales for last week were $11 340.00, what were her gross earnings? b) What are September's average hourly earnings if she worked 35 hours?

Tommy Hughes invested $10 000 in a business on January 1. He withdrew $1000 on March 1, reinvested $5000 on July 1, and withdrew $4000 on October 1. What is Tommy's average monthly investment balance for the year?

Rola's Dry Cleaning shows sales revenue (exclusive of GST) of $176 000 for the year. Rola's GST taxable expenses were (exclusive of GST) $17 960. How much should she remit to the government at the end of the year?

Calculate the final answer for the following expression: (5³ + 2²) ÷ 20

Reduce the following fraction to the lowest term:

Simplify, then round to the nearest hundredth:

In 2011, Danny invested his savings among four mutual funds as follows: 25% in bonds fund, 20% in Canadian equity fund, 40% in US equity fund, and the rest in money markets. During the past year, the rates of return on the individual funds were 7%, 3%, 9%, and -1%, respectively. What was the overall return rate on his portfolio?

Purchases of an inventory item during last month were as follows: What was the weighted average price per item?

Nick's gross earnings for one week was $698.10. His regular rate of pay is $15.60 for a 35 hour week and overtime is paid at time and one-half regular pay. Calculate the number of hours that Nick worked.

Paul is a homeowner in Whitby and his home value has been recently assessed by MPAC as $339 500. Paul's tax notice lists the following mill rates for various local services and capital developments. Calculate current year's total property tax.

A salesperson had gross earnings of $943.25 for last week on gross sales of $8320.00. If returns and allowances were 5.5% of gross sales, what is his rate of commission based on net sales?

Convert this fraction into the decimal form. If appropriate, place a dot above a decimal number to show that it repeats: