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 price of ₹500 goes up by 20%, and then the new price comes down by 10%. What is the final price, in rupees?
- 2.The price of a football changes from ₹100 to ₹79. What is the percentage change?
- 3.245 children are in a school and 60% of them come by bus. How many children come by bus?
- 4.102 is 40% of ?
- 5.One shop sells a water bottle for ₹195 and another sells it for ₹105. What is the percentage difference between the two prices?
- 6.A farmer picks 225 mangoes and 8% of them are ripe. How many mangoes are ripe?
- 7.24 is 12% of ?
- 8.What percent of 80 is 68?
- 9.₹1500 earns ₹45 simple interest in 1 year. What is the rate of interest per year, in percent?
- 10.Riya scored 438 marks out of 600 in 6 subjects (100 marks each). What is Riya’s percentage?
- 11.₹3000 earns ₹90 simple interest at 3% a year. For how many years was it kept?
- 12.A team scored 120 runs in one match and 5% fewer in the next. How many runs did it score in the next match?
- 13.52 is 40% of ?
- 14.A price of ₹400 goes up by 30%, and then the new price goes up by 10%. What is the final price, in rupees?
- 15.Ishaan scored 468 marks out of 600 in 6 subjects (100 marks each). What is Ishaan’s percentage?
- 16.2% of 450 =
- 17.A kite marked ₹1200 has 50% off in a sale. What is the sale price, in rupees?
- 18.₹3000 earns ₹960 simple interest in 4 years. What is the rate of interest per year, in percent?
- 19.A cricket bat costs ₹340 before GST. How many rupees of GST at 5% are added?
- 20.Aarav spent ₹114, which is 30% of the pocket money. How much pocket money did Aarav have, in rupees?
- 21.Isha keeps ₹4000 in a bank at 9% simple interest a year. How many rupees of interest does Isha get in 3 years?
- 22.A shop sold 500 ice creams on Monday and 51% more on Tuesday. How many ice creams did it sell on Tuesday?
- 23.One shop sells a pencil box for ₹149 and another sells it for ₹51. What is the percentage difference between the two prices?
- 24.Riya spent ₹37, which is 10% of the pocket money. How much pocket money did Riya have, in rupees?
- 25.A shopkeeper buys a football for ₹80 and sells it at a loss of 25%. What is the selling price, in rupees?
- 26.?% of 50 = 21
- 27.A shopkeeper buys a kite for ₹300 and sells it at a loss of 21%. How many rupees does the shopkeeper lose?
- 28.The price of a torch changes from ₹300 to ₹222. What is the percentage change?
- 29.A team scored 500 runs in one match and 87% fewer in the next. How many runs did it score in the next match?
- 30.A number changes from 100 to 82. Which is the right percentage change? (a) 18% increase (b) 18% decrease (c) 28% increase (d) 28% decrease
- 31.A team scored 300 runs in one match and 27% fewer in the next. How many runs did it score in the next match?
- 32.A shopkeeper buys a wall clock for ₹400 but has to sell it for ₹212. What is the loss percentage?
- 33.A water bottle costs ₹50. The price comes down by 76%. What is the new price, in rupees?
- 34.What percent of 120 is 84?
- 35.₹500 earns ₹30 simple interest in 2 years. What is the rate of interest per year, in percent?
- 36.A shopkeeper buys a storybook for ₹150 but has to sell it for ₹123. What is the loss percentage?
- 37.4 is what percent of 40?
- 38.The price of a lunch box changes from ₹50 to ₹22. What is the percentage change?
- 39.A shopkeeper buys a pencil box for ₹100 and sells it at a profit of 40%. How many rupees of profit does the shopkeeper make?
- 40.A tank had 500 litres of water. Now it has 410 litres. What is the percentage decrease?
Answer key
- 540
- 21
- 147
- 255
- 60
- 18
- 200
- 85
- 3
- 73
- 1
- 114
- 130
- 572
- 78
- 9
- 600
- 8
- 17
- 380
- 1080
- 755
- 98
- 370
- 60
- 42
- 63
- 26
- 65
- 18% decrease
- 219
- 47
- 12
- 70
- 3
- 18
- 10
- 56
- 40
- 18
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