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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- 1.3% of 500 =
- 2.A shopkeeper buys a water bottle for ₹40 but has to sell it for ₹38. What is the loss percentage?
- 3.65% of 220 =
- 4.A storybook costs ₹120 before tax. How many rupees of tax at 10% are added?
- 5.A shopkeeper buys a wall clock for ₹40 but has to sell it for ₹26. What is the loss percentage?
- 6.The price of a torch goes up from ₹120 to ₹192. What is the percentage increase?
- 7.What is the percentage difference between 123 and 177?
- 8.A price goes up by 40% and then comes down by 40%. Is the final price more than, less than or the same as the starting price? (a) the same (b) more (c) less
- 9.525 children are in a school and 8% of them come by bus. How many children come by bus?
- 10.A shopkeeper buys a storybook for ₹40 but has to sell it for ₹24. What is the loss percentage?
- 11.The price of a wall clock changes from ₹400 to ₹252. What is the percentage change?
- 12.A shopkeeper buys a toy car for ₹200 and sells it at a profit of 15%. How many rupees of profit does the shopkeeper make?
- 13.A table fan marked ₹500 has 36% off in a sale. What is the sale price, in rupees?
- 14.?% of 500 = 260
- 15.A shopkeeper buys a kite for ₹400 and sells it at a loss of 33%. How many rupees does the shopkeeper lose?
- 16.Isha scored 15 out of 25 in a maths test. What percentage did Isha score?
- 17.A kite costs ₹200. The price goes up by 74%. What is the new price, in rupees?
- 18.Meera spent ₹57, which is 30% of the pocket money. How much pocket money did Meera have, in rupees?
- 19.A school bag costs ₹100 plus 18% GST. What is the total price, in rupees?
- 20.A tank had 400 litres of water. Now it has 332 litres. What is the percentage decrease?
- 21.Dev scored 20 out of 20 in a maths test. What percentage did Dev score?
- 22.A number changes from 50 to 43. Which is the right percentage change? (a) 7% increase (b) 7% decrease (c) 14% increase (d) 14% decrease
- 23.A shopkeeper buys a pencil box for ₹50 and sells it at a profit of 14%. How many rupees of profit does the shopkeeper make?
- 24.A tank has 400 litres of water and 16% of it is used. How many litres are left?
- 25.A shop sold 500 ice creams on Monday and 23% more on Tuesday. How many ice creams did it sell on Tuesday?
- 26.Sara scored 280 marks out of 500 in 5 subjects (100 marks each). What is Sara’s percentage?
- 27.₹2500 earns ₹300 simple interest at 3% a year. For how many years was it kept?
- 28.Diya spent ₹20, which is 20% of the pocket money. How much pocket money did Diya have, in rupees?
- 29.A toy car costs ₹350 before GST and ₹413 after GST. What is the GST rate, in percent?
- 30.A number changes from 40 to 38. Which is the right percentage change? (a) 5% increase (b) 5% decrease (c) 2% increase (d) 2% decrease
- 31.What percent of 40 is 6?
- 32.A tank has 120 litres of water and 85% of it is used. How many litres are left?
- 33.10% of a number is 32. What is the number?
- 34.A school bag costs ₹130 plus 10% tax. What is the total price, in rupees?
- 35.What is the percentage difference between 100 and 60?
- 36.A shopkeeper buys a kite for ₹100 but has to sell it for ₹91. What is the loss percentage?
- 37.The price of a school bag goes up from ₹25 to ₹34. What is the percentage increase?
- 38.Riya scored 18 out of 20 in a maths test. What percentage did Riya score?
- 39.A shopkeeper buys a table fan for ₹300 and sells it at a loss of 14%. How many rupees does the shopkeeper lose?
- 40.?% of 250 = 185
Answer key
- 15
- 5
- 143
- 12
- 35
- 60
- 36
- less
- 42
- 40
- 37
- 30
- 320
- 52
- 132
- 60
- 348
- 190
- 118
- 17
- 100
- 14% decrease
- 7
- 336
- 615
- 56
- 4
- 100
- 18
- 5% decrease
- 15
- 18
- 320
- 143
- 50
- 9
- 36
- 90
- 42
- 74
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