Bus Upper Inter read 12 2

Dilip Rahman, an accountant and lecturer in accountancy, is being interviewed by Jenny Pope for a student magazine. Read part A of the interview and choose the correct answer. Drag the green number corresponding to the answer to the blank spaces. 1) What did tokens stand for in the ancient world? ________ 2) What was the big drawback of Roman numerals? ________ 3) What are Hindu-Arabic numerals? ________ 4) Who was Fibonacci and what did he do? ________ 5) What was Luca Pacioli’s contribution to accountancy? ________ 6) What influence has Pacioli’s work had? ________ a) The numerals we use today. b) He is called the ‘father of accountancy’. c) They represented animals and crops. d) They could only be used for adding and subtracting; other operations were very difficult. e) He wrote an essay about double-entry bookkeeping that was widely read and hugely influential. f) He was a mathematician who popularized the uses of Hindu-Arabic numerals and wrote a book about the abacus. He ‘invented’ commercial arithmetic.

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1 c - 2 d - 3 a - 4 f - 5 e - 6 b