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.One shop sells a school bag for ₹117 and another sells it for ₹123. What is the percentage difference between the two prices?
- 2.A price goes up by 50% and then comes down by 50%. Is the final price more than, less than or the same as the starting price? (a) more (b) less (c) the same
- 3.15% of a number is 3. What is the number?
- 4.A test has 40 marks. To get 75%, how many marks does Arjun need?
- 5.One shop sells a toy car for ₹34 and another sells it for ₹66. What is the percentage difference between the two prices?
- 6.Isha keeps ₹500 in a bank at 12% simple interest a year. What is the total amount after 4 years, in rupees?
- 7.Kabir scored 96 out of 200 in a maths test. What percentage did Kabir score?
- 8.A shopkeeper buys a school bag for ₹100 and sells it at a profit of 46%. What is the selling price, in rupees?
- 9.A tank holds 600 litres of water and 70% of it is used. How many litres are used?
- 10.The price of a lunch box changes from ₹50 to ₹36. What is the percentage change?
- 11.A tank holds 435 litres of water and 40% of it is used. How many litres are used?
- 12.A school bag is marked ₹120. In a sale it is sold for ₹66. What is the discount percentage?
- 13.The price of a water bottle goes up from ₹120 to ₹138. What is the percentage increase?
- 14.What is the percentage difference between 32 and 48?
- 15.A shopkeeper buys a pencil box for ₹300 and sells it at a loss of 11%. How many rupees does the shopkeeper lose?
- 16.170 children are in a school and 60% of them come by bus. How many children come by bus?
- 17.A number changes from 25 to 47. Which is the right percentage change? (a) 22% increase (b) 88% increase (c) 88% decrease (d) 22% decrease
- 18.A test has 200 marks. To get 65%, how many marks does Arjun need?
- 19.What percent of 400 is 132?
- 20.A school club grows from 60 members to 66 members. What is the percentage increase?
- 21.Kabir keeps ₹2000 in a bank at 4% simple interest a year. What is the total amount after 1 year, in rupees?
- 22.A lunch box costs ₹40. The price comes down by 20%. What is the new price, in rupees?
- 23.What percent of 400 is 188?
- 24.A shopkeeper buys a wall clock for ₹150 and sells it at a profit of 50%. What is the selling price, in rupees?
- 25.What percent of 20 is 4?
- 26.A shopkeeper buys a water bottle for ₹150 and sells it at a profit of 6%. How many rupees of profit does the shopkeeper make?
- 27.A number changes from 400 to 320. Which is the right percentage change? (a) 20% decrease (b) 25% increase (c) 20% increase (d) 25% decrease
- 28.What is the percentage difference between 87 and 63?
- 29.Anaya scored 184 out of 200 in a maths test. What percentage did Anaya score?
- 30.What is the percentage difference between 120 and 40?
- 31.Dev spent ₹5, which is 25% of the pocket money. How much pocket money did Dev have, in rupees?
- 32.The price of a lunch box changes from ₹300 to ₹339. What is the percentage change?
- 33.A price of ₹400 goes up by 20%, and then the new price goes up by 20%. What is the final price, in rupees?
- 34.A shopkeeper buys a table fan for ₹600 and sells it at a profit of 49%. How many rupees of profit does the shopkeeper make?
- 35.A tank has 40 litres of water and 70% of it is used. How many litres are left?
- 36.Rohan keeps ₹3000 in a bank at 8% simple interest a year. How many rupees of interest does Rohan get in 3 years?
- 37.What is the percentage difference between 79 and 121?
- 38.95 is 25% of ?
- 39.₹2000 earns ₹240 simple interest in 4 years. What is the rate of interest per year, in percent?
- 40.25 children are in a school and 4% of them come by bus. How many children come by bus?
Answer key
- 5
- less
- 20
- 30
- 64
- 740
- 48
- 146
- 420
- 28
- 174
- 45
- 15
- 40
- 33
- 102
- 88% increase
- 130
- 33
- 10
- 2080
- 32
- 47
- 225
- 20
- 9
- 20% decrease
- 32
- 92
- 100
- 20
- 13
- 576
- 294
- 12
- 720
- 42
- 380
- 3
- 1
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