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Mathematics and Business Studies
Mathematics is widely applied in daily life activities related to Business Studies.
For example, if one wants to determine profit or loss in business, a difference
between the selling and buying prices is to be calculated. If the buying price is
less than the selling price, the business makes profit. If the buying price is higher
than the selling price, the business makes loss. Mathematics is also applied in
other areas such as in loan borrowing, determining prices of items, among many
other applications.

Mathematics and Geography
Geographers require mathematical calculations to find the distance from one place to
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another, finding gradients, altitudes of hills and mountains. Through mathematical
calculations, geographical locations of different places are determined using latitudes
and longitudes, and real-life objects such as buildings are represented on a map
through the use of scales.

Mathematics and History
Mathematics helps in describing various historical activities such as duration of
events and expressing historical events which happened at different points in time.
For example, a simple mathematical operation is used to determine duration of
historical events such as World Wars, colonial periods and time spent by leaders
in positions, determining dates and ages of fossils by using some mathematical
principles such as carbon-14 among many other applications.

Mathematics and Literature
Mastering basic concepts of arithmetic can enable a person to understand better and
manage literary works. A kind of writing which can draw attention to readers depend
on several factors such as number of words per sentence, the number of sentences
per paragraph, and the number of paragraphs per page. For example, 20 words in
a sentence are considered as average. Thus, in analysing writing style, one need
to find an average number of words in each sentence, which requires Mathematics
Mathematics Form One Mathematics and Music
concepts.

The knowledge of Mathematics plays a vital role in music. For instance, playing
one note in piano has a different sound as when three harmonic notes are played
together. Music notes are distinguished mathematically by their different values.

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