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 water bottle costs ₹200 plus 18% GST. What is the total price, in rupees?
- 2.A toy car costs ₹290 before tax. How many rupees of tax at 10% are added?
- 3.A shopkeeper buys a cricket bat for ₹800 and sells it for ₹848. What is the profit percentage?
- 4.A tank holds 40 litres of water and 65% of it is used. How many litres are used?
- 5.₹5000 earns ₹800 simple interest in 2 years. What is the rate of interest per year, in percent?
- 6.A shopkeeper buys a school bag for ₹40 but has to sell it for ₹36. What is the loss percentage?
- 7.A table fan is marked ₹300. In a sale it is sold for ₹180. What is the discount percentage?
- 8.25% of a number is 41. What is the number?
- 9.A football is marked ₹150. In a sale it is sold for ₹138. What is the discount percentage?
- 10.A shopkeeper buys a water bottle for ₹800 but has to sell it for ₹704. What is the loss percentage?
- 11.A team scored 200 runs in one match and 18% fewer in the next. How many runs did it score in the next match?
- 12.A school club grows from 60 members to 99 members. What is the percentage increase?
- 13.A tank holds 40 litres of water and 70% of it is used. How many litres are used?
- 14.A farmer picks 560 mangoes and 65% of them are ripe. How many mangoes are ripe?
- 15.Isha scored 172 marks out of 400 in 4 subjects (100 marks each). What is Isha’s percentage?
- 16.A lunch box is marked ₹800. In a sale it is sold for ₹592. What is the discount percentage?
- 17.One shop sells a torch for ₹93 and another sells it for ₹207. What is the percentage difference between the two prices?
- 18.A school bag costs ₹100 before tax. How many rupees of tax at 10% are added?
- 19.A shopkeeper buys a school bag for ₹150 and sells it for ₹165. What is the profit percentage?
- 20.What is the percentage difference between 92 and 68?
- 21.?% of 60 = 48
- 22.A shopkeeper buys a torch for ₹120 and sells it at a profit of 40%. How many rupees of profit does the shopkeeper make?
- 23.What is the percentage difference between 60 and 90?
- 24.40% of 545 =
- 25.One shop sells a storybook for ₹25 and another sells it for ₹55. What is the percentage difference between the two prices?
- 26.Rohan spent ₹12, which is 20% of the pocket money. How much pocket money did Rohan have, in rupees?
- 27.A cricket bat costs ₹740 plus 5% GST. What is the total price, in rupees?
- 28.A price comes down by 40% and then goes up by 40%. Is the final price more than, less than or the same as the starting price? (a) less (b) the same (c) more
- 29.A wall clock marked ₹100 has 13% off in a sale. How many rupees do you save?
- 30.One shop sells a storybook for ₹78 and another sells it for ₹72. What is the percentage difference between the two prices?
- 31.20% of a number is 17. What is the number?
- 32.45% of 420 =
- 33.84 is what percent of 120?
- 34.A shopkeeper buys a cricket bat for ₹50 and sells it for ₹60. What is the profit percentage?
- 35.The price of a football comes down from ₹400 to ₹268. What is the percentage decrease?
- 36.Isha scored 240 marks out of 600 in 6 subjects (100 marks each). What is Isha’s percentage?
- 37.Aarav keeps ₹2000 in a bank at 2% simple interest a year. What is the total amount after 1 year, in rupees?
- 38.A number changes from 50 to 46. Which is the right percentage change? (a) 4% decrease (b) 4% increase (c) 8% decrease (d) 8% increase
- 39.A shopkeeper buys a wall clock for ₹600 and sells it for ₹678. What is the profit percentage?
- 40.Arjun keeps ₹3000 in a bank at 3% simple interest a year. What is the total amount after 3 years, in rupees?
Answer key
- 236
- 29
- 6
- 26
- 8
- 10
- 40
- 164
- 8
- 12
- 164
- 65
- 28
- 364
- 43
- 26
- 76
- 10
- 10
- 30
- 80
- 48
- 40
- 218
- 75
- 60
- 777
- less
- 13
- 8
- 85
- 189
- 70
- 20
- 33
- 40
- 2040
- 8% decrease
- 13
- 3270
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