Percentage Questions with Answers Worksheet
How to work it out (Find the 100%): Find the base — the number that is 100% (the whole, the old value, the cost price or the marked price). Choose the formula: part = p% of the base, or percent = part ÷ base × 100. Check the answer by working backwards.
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- 1.What percent of 150 is 78?
- 2.A shopkeeper buys a water bottle for ₹120 and sells it at a loss of 10%. What is the selling price, in rupees?
- 3.8% of 100 =
- 4.A test has 50 marks. To get 80%, how many marks does Dev need?
- 5.₹2500 earns ₹200 simple interest at 4% a year. For how many years was it kept?
- 6.A cricket bat is marked ₹100. In a sale it is sold for ₹54. What is the discount percentage?
- 7.A cricket bat marked ₹100 has 14% off in a sale. What is the sale price, in rupees?
- 8.A shopkeeper buys a water bottle for ₹600 and sells it for ₹762. What is the profit percentage?
- 9.A school bag is marked ₹150. In a sale it is sold for ₹135. What is the discount percentage?
- 10.What is the percentage difference between 62 and 38?
- 11.A price goes up by 10% and then comes down by 50%. Is the final price more than, less than or the same as the starting price? (a) less (b) the same (c) more
- 12.A team scored 25 runs in one match and 21 runs in the next. What is the percentage decrease?
- 13.A shopkeeper buys a pencil box for ₹120 but has to sell it for ₹108. What is the loss percentage?
- 14.The price of a pencil box comes down from ₹20 to ₹19. What is the percentage decrease?
- 15.What is the percentage difference between 93 and 147?
- 16.A shopkeeper buys a pencil box for ₹250 but has to sell it for ₹205. What is the loss percentage?
- 17.A number changes from 300 to 495. Which is the right percentage change? (a) 65% increase (b) 75% increase (c) 65% decrease (d) 75% decrease
- 18.A kite costs ₹1520 plus 5% GST. What is the total price, in rupees?
- 19.A storybook marked ₹600 has 5% off in a sale. How many rupees do you save?
- 20.The price of a toy car changes from ₹60 to ₹93. What is the percentage change?
- 21.What is the percentage difference between 138 and 162?
- 22.Anaya scored 15 out of 20 in a maths test. What percentage did Anaya score?
- 23.₹1000 earns ₹40 simple interest in 2 years. What is the rate of interest per year, in percent?
- 24.A number changes from 80 to 64. Which is the right percentage change? (a) 20% decrease (b) 25% increase (c) 20% increase (d) 25% decrease
- 25.A shopkeeper buys a storybook for ₹100 and sells it at a loss of 50%. What is the selling price, in rupees?
- 26.A price goes up by 10%, and then the new price goes up by 50%. What is the total percentage increase?
- 27.20 is what percent of 25?
- 28.A price of ₹100 goes up by 50%, and then the new price comes down by 50%. What is the final price, in rupees?
- 29.3 is 12% of ?
- 30.What percent of 250 is 90?
- 31.A kite marked ₹200 has 35% off in a sale. What is the sale price, in rupees?
- 32.What percent of 60 is 15?
- 33.What percent of 20 is 11?
- 34.A shopkeeper buys a pencil box for ₹150 but has to sell it for ₹81. What is the loss percentage?
- 35.A storybook costs ₹2000 before GST and ₹2360 after GST. What is the GST rate, in percent?
- 36.A school bag costs ₹890 before tax and ₹979 after tax. What is the tax rate, in percent?
- 37.A kite is marked ₹200. In a sale it is sold for ₹138. What is the discount percentage?
- 38.A price goes up by 30%, and then the new price goes up by 50%. What is the total percentage increase?
- 39.Isha spent ₹81, which is 60% of the pocket money. How much pocket money did Isha have, in rupees?
- 40.Meera scored 200 marks out of 400 in 4 subjects (100 marks each). What is Meera’s percentage?
Answer key
- 52
- 108
- 8
- 40
- 2
- 46
- 86
- 27
- 10
- 48
- less
- 16
- 10
- 5
- 45
- 18
- 65% increase
- 1596
- 30
- 55
- 16
- 75
- 2
- 20% decrease
- 50
- 65
- 80
- 75
- 25
- 36
- 130
- 25
- 55
- 46
- 18
- 10
- 31
- 95
- 135
- 50
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