CourseHES 102

Week4 of 16

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This week’s topics

Percentages in business: profit, mark-up and VAT

Cost price and selling price
Mark-up and discount
Adding VAT to a price

What you will be able to do

1.2 Apply percentage change to simple business scenarios (mark-up, discount).

Activity

Price five products for a small shop, with mark-up and VAT.

Study materials

Further resources

Contemporary Mathematics, 6.2: Discounts, Markups, and Sales Tax · PDF · OpenStax Contemporary Mathematics (2023), 6.2: cost and selling price, markup, discount and adding a tax such as VAT, pp. 552–565 · for registered students
Prealgebra 2e, 6.3: Sales Tax, Commission, and Discount Applications · PDF · OpenStax Prealgebra 2e (2020), 6.3: adding tax to a price (US sales tax works like VAT) and discounts, pp. 494–506 · for registered students

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Course plan

Week 1: Fractions, decimals and percentages
Week 2: Calculating with percentages
Week 3: Percentage increase and decrease
Week 4: Percentages in business: profit, mark-up and VAT
Week 5: Binary numbers
Week 6: Hexadecimal numbers
Week 7: Adding binary numbers
Midterm: Midterm evaluation
Week 9: Using formulae
Week 10: Solving equations and rearranging formulae
Week 11: Logic gates and truth tables
Week 12: Averages and range
Week 13: Reading charts and tables
Week 14: Solving problems step by step with flowcharts
Week 15: Review and coursework completion
Final: Final assessment and submission

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