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Topic: Fractions (Foundation - Unit 2)

Specification References: N2.7 N2.7 Calculate with fractions, decimals and percentages.

Candidates should be able to:

• calculate a fraction of a quantity
• work out one quantity as a fraction of another quantity
• use fractions to calculate proportions
• understand and use unit fractions as multiplicative inverses
• multiply and divide a fraction by an integer, by a unit fraction and by a general fraction.

Notes

This is part of the core number work required across all units. Candidates should understand that, for example, multiplication by  is the same as division by 5. 

  Questions involving mixed numbers may be set but at foundation tier non calculator questions involving multiplication of two or more mixed numbers will not be set

 The core number work will be assessed so that it is linked to other specification references within this unit.

Examples

1. In a school there are 600 students and 50 teachers.
   15% of the students are left-handed.
   12% of the teachers are left-handed.
   How many left-handed students and teachers are there altogether?

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