Maths Help!

[HaddawayAndShite]

Hi all. Can anyone please help me work this out before I internally combust? I’ve tried working out what I thought it would be, but looking at the answers I can only think to answer “cannot say” as there is an increase from 2002 to 2003 but the answers are all a decreased number? Is that that simple and I’m overthinking or and I a dunce at maths?

"Cannot say" seems to be the only option as the chart is showing the breakdown of the revenue costs. The only way to know how much was spent on salaries would be to know the total revenue for 2003. Last year's bill is irrelevant.

I can't read it clearly but I think Cannot Say is correct.

You only have % breakdown of costs between areas, but you have no idea what the total costs are for 2003, thus you can't work out the salary.

From the 2002 Salary you could work out all the other costings for 2002, but you can't say anything about the 2003 costings.

Could you post a picture of the graph on its own?

Unless you know what the salary actually was, or can work it out from what you’ve been given, you can’t say.

Yes, you would need total revenue for 2003 to work that out.

Although it's nothing to do with the given options being smaller - it could be that in 2002 the salary bill was 34% of a huge revenue and in 2003 the salary bill was 40% of a much smaller revenue, giving you an overall smaller salary bill.

Sorry it’s blurry it was a quick picture before I closed the window and went to have a little cry
Thank you for the help and explanations. I believe I have some level of Dyscalculia and trying to get assessments to help with work etc. It’s so frustrating.

If this confuses you just ignore me.

Say a company in 2018 spends £100,000 and has a salary bill of £10,000 that means it's salary bill is 10% of its spend.

Then in 2019 it spends £20,000 and has a salary bill of £4,000. That is 20% of its total spend but a much smaller actual number than in 2018.

Pie charts and percentage charts can tell you relative proportions, but knowing the figures for one year tells you absolutely nothing about the actual figures for another year.

Yes that absolutely makes sense Twenty. Thank you (and everyone else) that has helped break it down for me. The next question was about ratios and which was smallest and totally out of my depth so I just gave up and went and bought some chocolate 😂😂. Funny thing is, I thought my ability was improving after working with invoices for so long, percentages etc are finally sticking. This was a whole other ball game.

Ratios are what you need when cooking and you want to double or halve a recipe, or when you know you need 'half fat to flour' by weight for a cake.
So
Butter - Flour - Eggs - Fairy Cakes
100 - 200 - 2 - 12

Butter:Flour ratio is 100:200 which simplifies to 1:2

If you need to make 36 faiyr cakes then everything multiplies by 3.

If Ratio Boys:Girls is 2:3 then you have to imagine them standing in groups of 5 each with 2 boys and 3 girls. If there are then 20 boys you'd need 10 groups of 5 (20/2=10) and then in those 10 groups you would have 3x10=30 girls

Ratios questions often really helped by layout as follows

Boys +Girls= Total
2...……...3...….5
20...…….?...….?

To go from 2 to 20 you have to x 10 So 20 Boys leads to 30 girls and 50 in total.

You can use a bar of chocolate to think about dividing in a ratio.

For a 12 square bar splitting between you and a friend...
You : Friend
1 : 5 means for every piece you get, they get 5.
For the 12 square bar you’d get 2, they’d get 10.

1 : 3 means for every one piece of yours, they get three.

For the 12 square bar, you get 3, they get 9.

1 : 2 means for every one piece of yours, they get two. You’d have four pieces, they’d get eight.

1 : 1 means you’d split the bar evenly.

1:3 is a smaller ratio than 1:6. So in childcare you have a smaller ration of adult:children the younger they are.

A ratio in its lowest form is when you have divided both sides down as much as you can.

So 15:25 you can divide both sides by 5 to get 3:5 which is its lowest form.

The ratio question was a table of companies, with a row for capital and a row for debt (and others). The question was which company was the smaller capital to debt ratio. I THINK I found a website that was helping but honestly, it literally is like someone talking to me in another language.

Thank you for trying to help me. I want to improve as I know as a basic skill it’s something I massively struggle with. I am getting help at work and hoping to get some tests etc but there is a promotion available but I’m really struggling with the practice tests (HR are aware etc, so it’s all being taken into consideration). I think I need to look at some online courses or a tutor maybe.

Try a GCSE Foundation level Guide & Workbook, they might help?