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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- 1.30% of 260 =
- 2.A shopkeeper buys a pencil box for ₹400 and sells it for ₹496. What is the profit percentage?
- 3.One shop sells a cricket bat for ₹56 and another sells it for ₹44. What is the percentage difference between the two prices?
- 4.50% of a number is 38. What is the number?
- 5.A price of ₹300 goes up by 50%, and then the new price comes down by 40%. What is the final price, in rupees?
- 6.13 is what percent of 20?
- 7.Rohan scored 200 marks out of 400 in 4 subjects (100 marks each). What is Rohan’s percentage?
- 8.A football marked ₹150 has 48% off in a sale. What is the sale price, in rupees?
- 9.A kite costs ₹875 plus 12% tax. What is the total price, in rupees?
- 10.The price of a water bottle comes down from ₹100 to ₹79. What is the percentage decrease?
- 11.16 is what percent of 20?
- 12.A price of ₹400 goes up by 30%, and then the new price goes up by 40%. What is the final price, in rupees?
- 13.A wall clock costs ₹1100 before GST and ₹1298 after GST. What is the GST rate, in percent?
- 14.A pencil box is marked ₹300. In a sale it is sold for ₹219. What is the discount percentage?
- 15.A cricket bat is marked ₹1200. In a sale it is sold for ₹756. What is the discount percentage?
- 16.What percent of 40 is 36?
- 17.A shopkeeper buys a kite for ₹40 and sells it at a loss of 45%. How many rupees does the shopkeeper lose?
- 18.A shopkeeper buys a storybook for ₹40 and sells it at a loss of 5%. How many rupees does the shopkeeper lose?
- 19.150% of 488 =
- 20.A price goes up by 50% and then comes down by 20%. Is the final price more than, less than or the same as the starting price? (a) less (b) more (c) the same
- 21.Aarav spent ₹264, which is 80% of the pocket money. How much pocket money did Aarav have, in rupees?
- 22.A shopkeeper buys a pencil box for ₹500 and sells it at a loss of 30%. How many rupees does the shopkeeper lose?
- 23.Meera keeps ₹500 in a bank at 6% simple interest a year. What is the total amount after 5 years, in rupees?
- 24.What is the percentage difference between 112 and 88?
- 25.What is the percentage difference between 78 and 72?
- 26.A shopkeeper buys a lunch box for ₹600 and sells it for ₹846. What is the profit percentage?
- 27.The price of a lunch box comes down from ₹500 to ₹140. What is the percentage decrease?
- 28.A tank had 60 litres of water. Now it has 54 litres. What is the percentage decrease?
- 29.35% of 340 =
- 30.372 is what percent of 400?
- 31.A number changes from 400 to 308. Which is the right percentage change? (a) 92% decrease (b) 23% increase (c) 92% increase (d) 23% decrease
- 32.A team scored 60 runs in one match and 40% fewer in the next. How many runs did it score in the next match?
- 33.A water bottle costs ₹650 before tax and ₹728 after tax. What is the tax rate, in percent?
- 34.What is the percentage difference between 66 and 84?
- 35.A team scored 250 runs in one match and 60 runs in the next. What is the percentage decrease?
- 36.Aarav scored 495 marks out of 500 in 5 subjects (100 marks each). What is Aarav’s percentage?
- 37.Anaya scored 276 marks out of 300 in 3 subjects (100 marks each). What is Anaya’s percentage?
- 38.A lunch box is marked ₹120. In a sale it is sold for ₹72. What is the discount percentage?
- 39.What is the percentage difference between 51 and 49?
- 40.50 children are in a school and 12% of them come by bus. How many children come by bus?
Answer key
- 78
- 24
- 24
- 76
- 270
- 65
- 50
- 78
- 980
- 21
- 80
- 728
- 18
- 27
- 37
- 90
- 18
- 2
- 732
- more
- 330
- 150
- 650
- 24
- 8
- 41
- 72
- 10
- 119
- 93
- 23% decrease
- 36
- 12
- 24
- 76
- 99
- 92
- 40
- 4
- 6
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