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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- 1.25% of a number is 2. What is the number?
- 2.Arjun scored 354 marks out of 600 in 6 subjects (100 marks each). What is Arjun’s percentage?
- 3.12% of a number is 45. What is the number?
- 4.30% of a number is 108. What is the number?
- 5.A number changes from 40 to 70. Which is the right percentage change? (a) 30% increase (b) 75% increase (c) 30% decrease (d) 75% decrease
- 6.A shopkeeper buys a wall clock for ₹400 but has to sell it for ₹228. What is the loss percentage?
- 7.A shopkeeper buys a cricket bat for ₹300 and sells it at a profit of 37%. How many rupees of profit does the shopkeeper make?
- 8.12% of a number is 42. What is the number?
- 9.Rohan keeps ₹3000 in a bank at 5% simple interest a year. How many rupees of interest does Rohan get in 5 years?
- 10.A school club grows from 300 members to 549 members. What is the percentage increase?
- 11.Anaya scored 164 marks out of 400 in 4 subjects (100 marks each). What is Anaya’s percentage?
- 12.A shopkeeper buys a kite for ₹80 and sells it at a loss of 50%. What is the selling price, in rupees?
- 13.3% of 200 =
- 14.₹1000 earns ₹360 simple interest at 12% a year. For how many years was it kept?
- 15.120% of 145 =
- 16.The price of a table fan goes up from ₹250 to ₹435. What is the percentage increase?
- 17.₹4000 earns ₹160 simple interest at 4% a year. For how many years was it kept?
- 18.A table fan costs ₹200 before GST. How many rupees of GST at 18% are added?
- 19.A price of ₹100 goes up by 20%, and then the new price goes up by 50%. What is the final price, in rupees?
- 20.A water bottle is marked ₹100. In a sale it is sold for ₹65. What is the discount percentage?
- 21.A shop sold 150 ice creams on Monday and 204 on Tuesday. What is the percentage increase?
- 22.84 is 80% of ?
- 23.120% of 475 =
- 24.A torch costs ₹200. The price goes up by 28%. What is the new price, in rupees?
- 25.What percent of 300 is 18?
- 26.A school club has 150 members. The number grows by 14%. How many members are there now?
- 27.What is the percentage difference between 16 and 24?
- 28.A shop sold 50 ice creams on Monday and 96% more on Tuesday. How many ice creams did it sell on Tuesday?
- 29.?% of 250 = 160
- 30.A shop sold 60 ice creams on Monday and 66 on Tuesday. What is the percentage increase?
- 31.A test has 80 marks. To get 45%, how many marks does Diya need?
- 32.A wall clock costs ₹700 before GST and ₹826 after GST. What is the GST rate, in percent?
- 33.What is the percentage difference between 185 and 215?
- 34.What is the percentage difference between 39 and 41?
- 35.Aarav scored 40 out of 40 in a maths test. What percentage did Aarav score?
- 36.A team scored 25 runs in one match and 28% fewer in the next. How many runs did it score in the next match?
- 37.A farmer picks 320 mangoes and 45% of them are ripe. How many mangoes are ripe?
- 38.A number changes from 40 to 32. Which is the right percentage change? (a) 20% increase (b) 20% decrease (c) 25% decrease (d) 25% increase
- 39.A shopkeeper buys a table fan for ₹400 and sells it at a loss of 20%. What is the selling price, in rupees?
- 40.A tank holds 110 litres of water and 30% of it is used. How many litres are used?
Answer key
- 8
- 59
- 375
- 360
- 75% increase
- 43
- 111
- 350
- 750
- 83
- 41
- 40
- 6
- 3
- 174
- 74
- 1
- 36
- 180
- 35
- 36
- 105
- 570
- 256
- 6
- 171
- 40
- 98
- 64
- 10
- 36
- 18
- 15
- 5
- 100
- 18
- 144
- 20% decrease
- 320
- 33
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