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 school bag for ₹40 but has to sell it for ₹28. What is the loss percentage?
- 2.A number changes from 20 to 26. Which is the right percentage change? (a) 6% decrease (b) 30% decrease (c) 6% increase (d) 30% increase
- 3.A torch is marked ₹800. In a sale it is sold for ₹704. What is the discount percentage?
- 4.A football marked ₹120 has 40% off in a sale. What is the sale price, in rupees?
- 5.Diya keeps ₹5000 in a bank at 7% simple interest a year. What is the total amount after 3 years, in rupees?
- 6.A number changes from 100 to 94. Which is the right percentage change? (a) 16% decrease (b) 6% decrease (c) 16% increase (d) 6% increase
- 7.A price of ₹400 goes up by 40%, and then the new price comes down by 20%. What is the final price, in rupees?
- 8.A torch costs ₹1450 before GST and ₹1711 after GST. What is the GST rate, in percent?
- 9.A toy car is marked ₹400. In a sale it is sold for ₹256. What is the discount percentage?
- 10.A shopkeeper buys a kite for ₹600 and sells it at a loss of 18%. How many rupees does the shopkeeper lose?
- 11.₹4000 earns ₹160 simple interest in 1 year. What is the rate of interest per year, in percent?
- 12.A number changes from 20 to 38. Which is the right percentage change? (a) 90% decrease (b) 18% decrease (c) 18% increase (d) 90% increase
- 13.A shopkeeper buys a kite for ₹150 and sells it at a profit of 12%. How many rupees of profit does the shopkeeper make?
- 14.Rohan keeps ₹1500 in a bank at 10% simple interest a year. What is the total amount after 2 years, in rupees?
- 15.?% of 25 = 11
- 16.What is the percentage difference between 13 and 27?
- 17.One shop sells a toy car for ₹27 and another sells it for ₹73. What is the percentage difference between the two prices?
- 18.A shopkeeper buys a table fan for ₹800 but has to sell it for ₹752. What is the loss percentage?
- 19.?% of 150 = 138
- 20.What percent of 80 is 8?
- 21.46 is what percent of 50?
- 22.17 is what percent of 20?
- 23.A price goes up by 30%, and then the new price goes up by 50%. What is the total percentage increase?
- 24.30% of 350 =
- 25.Diya scored 10 out of 20 in a maths test. What percentage did Diya score?
- 26.A school club grows from 60 members to 99 members. What is the percentage increase?
- 27.The price of a football comes down from ₹25 to ₹14. What is the percentage decrease?
- 28.A farmer picks 180 mangoes and 45% of them are ripe. How many mangoes are ripe?
- 29.A team scored 20 runs in one match and 2 runs in the next. What is the percentage decrease?
- 30.Sara scored 36 out of 80 in a maths test. What percentage did Sara score?
- 31.296 is 80% of ?
- 32.Aarav keeps ₹500 in a bank at 5% simple interest a year. How many rupees of interest does Aarav get in 5 years?
- 33.15% of a number is 60. What is the number?
- 34.A team scored 50 runs in one match and 47 runs in the next. What is the percentage decrease?
- 35.Dev spent ₹92, which is 80% of the pocket money. How much pocket money did Dev have, in rupees?
- 36.A shop sold 25 ice creams on Monday and 29 on Tuesday. What is the percentage increase?
- 37.A water bottle costs ₹380 before GST. How many rupees of GST at 5% are added?
- 38.A lunch box is marked ₹150. In a sale it is sold for ₹87. What is the discount percentage?
- 39.A football costs ₹120. The price goes up by 45%. What is the new price, in rupees?
- 40.A table fan costs ₹1580 plus 10% tax. What is the total price, in rupees?
Answer key
- 30
- 30% increase
- 12
- 72
- 6050
- 6% decrease
- 448
- 18
- 36
- 108
- 4
- 90% increase
- 18
- 1800
- 44
- 70
- 92
- 6
- 92
- 10
- 92
- 85
- 95
- 105
- 50
- 65
- 44
- 81
- 90
- 45
- 370
- 125
- 400
- 6
- 115
- 16
- 19
- 42
- 174
- 1738
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