Mathematics: The Basic Skills : with AnswersRelating mathematics to everyday life, this textbook is considered particularly suitable for courses such as the City & Guilds Foundation Course in Numeracy, AEB Basic Numeracy, and GNVQ Core Skills. Worked examples and graded exercises provide practice in the use of calculators and estimation, and answers are included. This fifth edition provides practice on basic calculators, practice in estimating, converting miles per hour to kilometres per hour, and calculations which have been updated to include Council Tax and mobile phones. |
Contents
Section 1 | 3 |
Section 2 | 7 |
Section 3 | 24 |
Section 4 | 41 |
Section 5 | 67 |
Section 6 | 136 |
Section 7 | 149 |
Section 8 | 155 |
Section 12 | 198 |
Section 13 | 205 |
Section 14 | 243 |
Section 15 | 249 |
Section 16 | 250 |
Section 17 | 251 |
Section 18 | 256 |
Section 19 | 261 |
Common terms and phrases
amount bar chart basic rate calculator called centimetres charge circle cm 2 cm cm² cm³ column Council Tax cubic cuboid decimal point diagram diameter digit sum distance Draw earns equal equation EXAMPLE Find EXERCISE 11 EXERCISE 9 Find the area Find the cost Find the volume flow chart following numbers gallons giving your answer grams graph height hundred hundredths income tax Input Display kilograms kilometres litres lowest terms marks means measured metres miles miles/hour millimetres minutes mixed fractions mm² mobile phone Multiply nearest numbers correct overtime paid pence percentage petrol pounds prism Radius ratio rectangle recurring decimals remainder rotational symmetry round shape sides significant figures square root straight line Subtract Swiss francs symmetry temperature thousand three decimal places tonnes triangle units wage whole number Write y-intercept