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.One shop sells a pencil box for ₹86 and another sells it for ₹74. What is the percentage difference between the two prices?
- 2.Anaya scored 76 out of 80 in a maths test. What percentage did Anaya score?
- 3.Anaya spent ₹56, which is 40% of the pocket money. How much pocket money did Anaya have, in rupees?
- 4.291 is 75% of ?
- 5.The price of a lunch box changes from ₹120 to ₹144. What is the percentage change?
- 6.A football costs ₹1350 plus 12% tax. What is the total price, in rupees?
- 7.A storybook costs ₹1300 before GST. How many rupees of GST at 18% are added?
- 8.A pencil box is marked ₹600. In a sale it is sold for ₹366. What is the discount percentage?
- 9.A shopkeeper buys a school bag for ₹300 but has to sell it for ₹186. What is the loss percentage?
- 10.A shopkeeper buys a cricket bat for ₹500 and sells it at a profit of 36%. How many rupees of profit does the shopkeeper make?
- 11.A toy car costs ₹50. The price comes down by 42%. What is the new price, in rupees?
- 12.A team scored 50 runs in one match and 42% fewer in the next. How many runs did it score in the next match?
- 13.A price of ₹200 comes down by 10%, and then the new price comes down by 30%. What is the final price, in rupees?
- 14.400 children are in a school and 45% of them come by bus. How many children come by bus?
- 15.What is the percentage difference between 94 and 66?
- 16.66 is 30% of ?
- 17.A shopkeeper buys a lunch box for ₹120 and sells it for ₹156. What is the profit percentage?
- 18.A torch costs ₹20 before GST and ₹21 after GST. What is the GST rate, in percent?
- 19.Meera spent ₹16, which is 80% of the pocket money. How much pocket money did Meera have, in rupees?
- 20.A storybook costs ₹1050 before GST and ₹1239 after GST. What is the GST rate, in percent?
- 21.A kite costs ₹200. The price comes down by 73%. What is the new price, in rupees?
- 22.70% of 140 =
- 23.A school bag costs ₹1575 before tax. How many rupees of tax at 12% are added?
- 24.The price of a kite changes from ₹20 to ₹29. What is the percentage change?
- 25.A test has 80 marks. To get 35%, how many marks does Anaya need?
- 26.One shop sells a kite for ₹30 and another sells it for ₹10. What is the percentage difference between the two prices?
- 27.6 is what percent of 60?
- 28.A price of ₹400 comes down by 20%, and then the new price comes down by 30%. What is the final price, in rupees?
- 29.10% of a number is 5. What is the number?
- 30.Kabir keeps ₹5000 in a bank at 9% simple interest a year. What is the total amount after 1 year, in rupees?
- 31.A table fan is marked ₹1000. In a sale it is sold for ₹500. What is the discount percentage?
- 32.₹2000 earns ₹280 simple interest at 7% a year. For how many years was it kept?
- 33.The price of a water bottle comes down from ₹20 to ₹19. What is the percentage decrease?
- 34.A price comes down by 40% and then goes up by 50%. Is the final price more than, less than or the same as the starting price? (a) the same (b) less (c) more
- 35.Arjun scored 126 marks out of 300 in 3 subjects (100 marks each). What is Arjun’s percentage?
- 36.Kabir spent ₹288, which is 80% of the pocket money. How much pocket money did Kabir have, in rupees?
- 37.A number changes from 120 to 150. Which is the right percentage change? (a) 25% decrease (b) 20% decrease (c) 25% increase (d) 20% increase
- 38.A football marked ₹400 has 18% off in a sale. What is the sale price, in rupees?
- 39.25% of a number is 47. What is the number?
- 40.The price of a school bag goes up from ₹200 to ₹224. What is the percentage increase?
Answer key
- 15
- 95
- 140
- 388
- 20
- 1512
- 234
- 39
- 38
- 180
- 29
- 29
- 126
- 180
- 35
- 220
- 30
- 5
- 20
- 18
- 54
- 98
- 189
- 45
- 28
- 100
- 10
- 224
- 50
- 5450
- 50
- 2
- 5
- less
- 42
- 360
- 25% increase
- 328
- 188
- 12
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