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.₹1500 earns ₹900 simple interest in 5 years. What is the rate of interest per year, in percent?
- 2.15 is 30% of ?
- 3.A shopkeeper buys a table fan for ₹80 and sells it at a profit of 50%. What is the selling price, in rupees?
- 4.₹3000 earns ₹450 simple interest in 5 years. What is the rate of interest per year, in percent?
- 5.A shop sold 200 ice creams on Monday and 358 on Tuesday. What is the percentage increase?
- 6.A number changes from 150 to 267. Which is the right percentage change? (a) 88% increase (b) 78% increase (c) 78% decrease (d) 88% decrease
- 7.A shop sold 150 ice creams on Monday and 60% more on Tuesday. How many ice creams did it sell on Tuesday?
- 8.96 is what percent of 120?
- 9.Kabir scored 30 out of 40 in a maths test. What percentage did Kabir score?
- 10.60% of a number is 30. What is the number?
- 11.A shopkeeper buys a lunch box for ₹100 but has to sell it for ₹58. What is the loss percentage?
- 12.A price of ₹200 goes up by 20%, and then the new price comes down by 50%. What is the final price, in rupees?
- 13.Dev scored 480 marks out of 500 in 5 subjects (100 marks each). What is Dev’s percentage?
- 14.150 children are in a school and 12% of them come by bus. How many children come by bus?
- 15.A price of ₹200 goes up by 50%, and then the new price comes down by 10%. What is the final price, in rupees?
- 16.A shop sold 150 ice creams on Monday and 171 on Tuesday. What is the percentage increase?
- 17.A shopkeeper buys a pencil box for ₹100 and sells it at a loss of 42%. How many rupees does the shopkeeper lose?
- 18.A shop sold 20 ice creams on Monday and 27 on Tuesday. What is the percentage increase?
- 19.15% of a number is 15. What is the number?
- 20.90 is 30% of ?
- 21.3% of 600 =
- 22.5% of a number is 2. What is the number?
- 23.One shop sells a lunch box for ₹78 and another sells it for ₹72. What is the percentage difference between the two prices?
- 24.A water bottle costs ₹1600 before GST. How many rupees of GST at 5% are added?
- 25.A tank holds 390 litres of water and 70% of it is used. How many litres are used?
- 26.A tank has 80 litres of water and 85% of it is used. How many litres are left?
- 27.A shopkeeper buys a water bottle for ₹300 but has to sell it for ₹246. What is the loss percentage?
- 28.The price of a cricket bat changes from ₹20 to ₹15. What is the percentage change?
- 29.A team scored 100 runs in one match and 54 runs in the next. What is the percentage decrease?
- 30.The price of a toy car changes from ₹400 to ₹748. What is the percentage change?
- 31.What percent of 150 is 57?
- 32.A shopkeeper buys a wall clock for ₹300 and sells it at a loss of 21%. What is the selling price, in rupees?
- 33.A tank had 250 litres of water. Now it has 215 litres. What is the percentage decrease?
- 34.15% of 440 =
- 35.The price of a kite changes from ₹20 to ₹14. What is the percentage change?
- 36.101 is 50% of ?
- 37.A wall clock is marked ₹120. In a sale it is sold for ₹114. What is the discount percentage?
- 38.A team scored 40 runs in one match and 15% fewer in the next. How many runs did it score in the next match?
- 39.One shop sells a school bag for ₹65 and another sells it for ₹35. What is the percentage difference between the two prices?
- 40.₹2500 earns ₹300 simple interest at 12% a year. For how many years was it kept?
Answer key
- 12
- 50
- 120
- 3
- 79
- 78% increase
- 240
- 80
- 75
- 50
- 42
- 120
- 96
- 18
- 270
- 14
- 42
- 35
- 100
- 300
- 18
- 40
- 8
- 80
- 273
- 12
- 18
- 25
- 46
- 87
- 38
- 237
- 14
- 66
- 30
- 202
- 5
- 34
- 60
- 1
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