P6 / MahaBodhi / 2018 / SA2 / Paper 2 - Q10 [4 marks]

Question:

Sharul was given $20 on Monday.
He recorded the fraction of the money he had that was spent that day.
The next day, he would bring the amount left from the day before to school and record the fraction of this amount of money that was spent. He repeated this daily.
The table below shows the fraction of his money that he spent on 3 days.
(a) What was the amount of money Sharul had left on Tuesday?
(b) Sharul spent $2 on Thursday.
What fraction of the money he had on Thursday was spent?