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.₹4000 earns ₹1600 simple interest in 4 years. What is the rate of interest per year, in percent?
- 2.₹4000 earns ₹400 simple interest in 2 years. What is the rate of interest per year, in percent?
- 3.A cricket bat is marked ₹1000. In a sale it is sold for ₹700. What is the discount percentage?
- 4.2 is what percent of 20?
- 5.27 is 12% of ?
- 6.A toy car is marked ₹120. In a sale it is sold for ₹84. What is the discount percentage?
- 7.A price of ₹500 goes up by 40%, and then the new price comes down by 10%. What is the final price, in rupees?
- 8.A water bottle costs ₹25. The price goes up by 40%. What is the new price, in rupees?
- 9.79 is 25% of ?
- 10.A price goes up by 10%, and then the new price goes up by 30%. What is the total percentage increase?
- 11.65% of 400 =
- 12.Kabir scored 172 marks out of 400 in 4 subjects (100 marks each). What is Kabir’s percentage?
- 13.?% of 60 = 24
- 14.Rohan keeps ₹3000 in a bank at 6% simple interest a year. What is the total amount after 3 years, in rupees?
- 15.A price goes up by 20% and then comes down by 10%. Is the final price more than, less than or the same as the starting price? (a) more (b) the same (c) less
- 16.A team scored 40 runs in one match and 8 runs in the next. What is the percentage decrease?
- 17.₹1500 earns ₹150 simple interest at 5% a year. For how many years was it kept?
- 18.A price goes up by 30% 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
- 19.A price of ₹300 goes up by 10%, and then the new price comes down by 50%. What is the final price, in rupees?
- 20.Isha scored 360 marks out of 500 in 5 subjects (100 marks each). What is Isha’s percentage?
- 21.A shopkeeper buys a torch for ₹150 and sells it for ₹165. What is the profit percentage?
- 22.A football costs ₹960 before GST and ₹1008 after GST. What is the GST rate, in percent?
- 23.A price of ₹500 goes up by 10%, and then the new price comes down by 10%. What is the final price, in rupees?
- 24.18 is what percent of 50?
- 25.The price of a kite changes from ₹20 to ₹27. What is the percentage change?
- 26.A price of ₹100 goes up by 10%, and then the new price comes down by 50%. What is the final price, in rupees?
- 27.₹2000 earns ₹240 simple interest at 12% a year. For how many years was it kept?
- 28.The price of a school bag changes from ₹400 to ₹560. What is the percentage change?
- 29.What percent of 20 is 18?
- 30.16 is what percent of 20?
- 31.Meera scored 186 out of 200 in a maths test. What percentage did Meera score?
- 32.Ishaan keeps ₹2000 in a bank at 8% simple interest a year. What is the total amount after 3 years, in rupees?
- 33.₹3000 earns ₹1320 simple interest in 4 years. What is the rate of interest per year, in percent?
- 34.A shopkeeper buys a cricket bat for ₹40 and sells it at a loss of 5%. What is the selling price, in rupees?
- 35.A torch is marked ₹100. In a sale it is sold for ₹66. What is the discount percentage?
- 36.Sara spent ₹130, which is 40% of the pocket money. How much pocket money did Sara have, in rupees?
- 37.One shop sells a school bag for ₹108 and another sells it for ₹52. What is the percentage difference between the two prices?
- 38.A shopkeeper buys a pencil box for ₹50 and sells it at a profit of 36%. How many rupees of profit does the shopkeeper make?
- 39.25% of a number is 10. What is the number?
- 40.A tank had 60 litres of water. Now it has 54 litres. What is the percentage decrease?
Answer key
- 10
- 5
- 30
- 10
- 225
- 30
- 630
- 35
- 316
- 43
- 260
- 43
- 40
- 3540
- more
- 80
- 2
- less
- 165
- 72
- 10
- 5
- 495
- 36
- 35
- 55
- 1
- 40
- 90
- 80
- 93
- 2480
- 11
- 38
- 34
- 325
- 70
- 18
- 40
- 10
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