Chapter 1: Financial mathematics Notes

Percentage increase and decrease, profit, loss and discounts, wages, salaries, overtime, commission and income tax, simple interest, compound interest and depreciation.

Sections

  1. 1A Percentage increase, profit and discounts Mastered

    Increasing and decreasing by a percentage with multipliers, percentage change, profit and loss, discounts, GST and finding the original price.

  2. 1B Income and tax Mastered

    Wages, salaries, overtime, commission and piecework, gross and net pay, taxable income, PAYG tax and tax refunds.

  3. 1C Simple interest Mastered

    The simple interest formula I = Prn, finding the total amount, and rearranging to find the rate, principal or time.

  4. 1D Compound interest and depreciation Mastered

    Compound interest as repeated percentage increase, the formula A = P(1 + r)^n, depreciation with A = P(1 − r)^n, and comparing simple and compound interest.

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