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.A shopkeeper buys a lunch box for ₹500 and sells it at a profit of 5%. How many rupees of profit does the shopkeeper make?
- 2.A tank has 40 litres of water and 10% of it is used. How many litres are left?
- 3.A price goes up by 30%, and then the new price goes up by 30%. What is the total percentage increase?
- 4.One shop sells a storybook for ₹118 and another sells it for ₹42. What is the percentage difference between the two prices?
- 5.A lunch box costs ₹500. The price goes up by 57%. What is the new price, in rupees?
- 6.A number changes from 100 to 200. Which is the right percentage change? (a) 100% decrease (b) 50% increase (c) 100% increase (d) 50% decrease
- 7.9 is what percent of 20?
- 8.90% of 130 =
- 9.The price of a torch changes from ₹200 to ₹230. What is the percentage change?
- 10.?% of 40 = 34
- 11.Rohan scored 18 out of 25 in a maths test. What percentage did Rohan score?
- 12.?% of 400 = 40
- 13.A football marked ₹200 has 14% off in a sale. How many rupees do you save?
- 14.A shopkeeper buys a school bag for ₹100 and sells it for ₹136. What is the profit percentage?
- 15.48 is what percent of 60?
- 16.What is the percentage difference between 52 and 28?
- 17.25% of a number is 55. What is the number?
- 18.A shopkeeper buys a table fan for ₹50 and sells it at a loss of 30%. How many rupees does the shopkeeper lose?
- 19.A shopkeeper buys a school bag for ₹500 and sells it at a profit of 39%. How many rupees of profit does the shopkeeper make?
- 20.₹2500 earns ₹1250 simple interest at 10% a year. For how many years was it kept?
- 21.A shopkeeper buys a toy car for ₹250 and sells it at a profit of 42%. What is the selling price, in rupees?
- 22.A shopkeeper buys a cricket bat for ₹40 and sells it at a profit of 20%. What is the selling price, in rupees?
- 23.18 is what percent of 25?
- 24.A football costs ₹1160 before GST. How many rupees of GST at 5% are added?
- 25.A shopkeeper buys a pencil box for ₹50 and sells it at a profit of 44%. How many rupees of profit does the shopkeeper make?
- 26.100 children are in a school and 65% of them come by bus. How many children come by bus?
- 27.One shop sells a torch for ₹30 and another sells it for ₹10. What is the percentage difference between the two prices?
- 28.Sara spent ₹84, which is 25% of the pocket money. How much pocket money did Sara have, in rupees?
- 29.The price of a storybook changes from ₹250 to ₹165. What is the percentage change?
- 30.4 is what percent of 25?
- 31.A shopkeeper buys a pencil box for ₹500 but has to sell it for ₹360. What is the loss percentage?
- 32.A price of ₹200 comes down by 30%, and then the new price comes down by 30%. What is the final price, in rupees?
- 33.Riya keeps ₹3000 in a bank at 11% simple interest a year. How many rupees of interest does Riya get in 2 years?
- 34.A farmer picks 240 mangoes and 35% of them are ripe. How many mangoes are ripe?
- 35.One shop sells a toy car for ₹64 and another sells it for ₹96. What is the percentage difference between the two prices?
- 36.57 is what percent of 300?
- 37.A shopkeeper buys a wall clock for ₹400 and sells it at a loss of 19%. How many rupees does the shopkeeper lose?
- 38.A price of ₹400 comes down by 30%, and then the new price comes down by 20%. What is the final price, in rupees?
- 39.A pencil box costs ₹625 before tax. How many rupees of tax at 12% are added?
- 40.A tank had 100 litres of water. Now it has 50 litres. What is the percentage decrease?
Answer key
- 25
- 36
- 69
- 95
- 785
- 100% increase
- 45
- 117
- 15
- 85
- 72
- 10
- 28
- 36
- 80
- 60
- 220
- 15
- 195
- 5
- 355
- 48
- 72
- 58
- 22
- 65
- 100
- 336
- 34
- 16
- 28
- 98
- 660
- 84
- 40
- 19
- 76
- 224
- 75
- 50
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