Performing Basic Calculations

15 February 2011

Today we look at performing basic calculations. Always look at being accurate when doing any calculations. Doing addition is when you add numbers and it always increases the same with multiplication. When doing multiplications you increase an amount by a certain number of times. Subtraction is when you remove one amount from another and it always decrease. Division is when you break up an amount to smaller bits. Percentage is always out of a hundred.

We had to in groups provide an explanation to do a calculation using people as fractions and whole numbers and explain how you can do the to get to the answer. Then we had an assignment to calculate profits, using a recipe and its amounts to sell mousse to a conference of 40 people. We had to calculate how much we were going to need and what each portion will cost. We also had to calculate and add a mark up to the price to make a profit.