ML Aggarwal Class 7 Solutions for ICSE Maths Chapter 2 Fractions and Decimals Check Your Progress
Question 1.
What fraction is 270 gram of 3 kilograms?
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Question 2.
Simplify the following:
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Question 3.
A shirt was marked at ₹ 540. It was sold at \(\frac { 3 }{ 4 }\) of the marked price. What was the sale price?
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Question 4.
In a class of 56 students, \(\frac { 1 }{ 4 }\) are in blue house and \(\frac { 3 }{ 14 }\) are in yellow house. Out of the remaining, \(\frac { 1 }{ 3 }\) are in the greenhouse and the rest are in the red house. Find the number of students in each house.
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Question 5.
Rohit bought a motorcycle for ₹ 36000. He paid \(\frac { 1 }{ 6 }\) of the price in cash and the rest in 12 equal monthly installments. Find the amount he had to pay every month.
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Question 6.
Mr Mukerjee gave \(\frac { 5 }{ 14 }\) of his money to his son, \(\frac { 2 }{ 3 }\) of the remainder to his daughter and the rest to his wife. If his wife got ₹ 36000, what was that total amount?
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Question 8.
Convert the following numbers to fractions (in simplest form):
(i) 0.025
(ii) 0.876
(iii) 4.3125
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Question 9.
Write the following fractions as decimals:
(i) 1\(\frac { 3 }{ 8 }\)
(ii) \(\frac { 47 }{ 125 }\)
(iii) 2\(\frac { 9 }{ 40 }\)
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Question 10.
By how much does the sum of 17.443 and 29.657 exceed the sum of 13.687 and 18.548?
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Question 11.
Simplify the following:
(i) 4.27 × 0.036
(ii) 0.09 × 1.04
(iii) 1.32 ÷ 0.8
(iv) 0.7038 ÷ 0.34
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Question 12.
If one kg of rice costs ₹ 52.70, then find the cost of 12.5 kg rice.
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Question 13.
A piece of cloth is 24.5 m long. How many pieces, each of length 1.75 m, can be cut from it?
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Question 14.
The product of two decimal numbers is 1.599 and one of them ¡s 0.65, find the other.
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Question 15.
Simplify the following:
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