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 price goes up by 50%, and then the new price goes up by 20%. What is the total percentage increase?
- 2.?% of 200 = 144
- 3.A number changes from 40 to 20. Which is the right percentage change? (a) 50% decrease (b) 100% decrease (c) 50% increase (d) 100% increase
- 4.25% of a number is 45. What is the number?
- 5.A shopkeeper buys a lunch box for ₹250 but has to sell it for ₹170. What is the loss percentage?
- 6.65% of 180 =
- 7.27 is 15% of ?
- 8.A price goes up by 20%, and then the new price goes up by 40%. What is the total percentage increase?
- 9.A school bag marked ₹800 has 27% off in a sale. How many rupees do you save?
- 10.150% of 294 =
- 11.A shopkeeper buys a toy car for ₹80 and sells it at a loss of 5%. How many rupees does the shopkeeper lose?
- 12.Meera scored 200 marks out of 500 in 5 subjects (100 marks each). What is Meera’s percentage?
- 13.The price of a storybook comes down from ₹250 to ₹155. What is the percentage decrease?
- 14.A tank holds 500 litres of water and 3% of it is used. How many litres are used?
- 15.?% of 60 = 18
- 16.60% of a number is 39. What is the number?
- 17.A pencil box marked ₹150 has 50% off in a sale. How many rupees do you save?
- 18.A torch is marked ₹600. In a sale it is sold for ₹552. What is the discount percentage?
- 19.?% of 25 = 15
- 20.A shopkeeper buys a pencil box for ₹250 and sells it at a profit of 38%. What is the selling price, in rupees?
- 21.What is the percentage difference between 150 and 90?
- 22.A tank had 40 litres of water. Now it has 30 litres. What is the percentage decrease?
- 23.A shopkeeper buys a pencil box for ₹300 and sells it at a profit of 13%. How many rupees of profit does the shopkeeper make?
- 24.What is the percentage difference between 99 and 141?
- 25.A storybook costs ₹1680 before GST and ₹1764 after GST. What is the GST rate, in percent?
- 26.A tank had 400 litres of water. Now it has 204 litres. What is the percentage decrease?
- 27.Kabir spent ₹102, which is 40% of the pocket money. How much pocket money did Kabir have, in rupees?
- 28.A team scored 200 runs in one match and 24% fewer in the next. How many runs did it score in the next match?
- 29.22 is what percent of 40?
- 30.A wall clock is marked ₹500. In a sale it is sold for ₹375. What is the discount percentage?
- 31.A tank holds 225 litres of water and 40% of it is used. How many litres are used?
- 32.A shopkeeper buys a pencil box for ₹50 and sells it at a profit of 42%. What is the selling price, in rupees?
- 33.A table fan marked ₹400 has 18% off in a sale. What is the sale price, in rupees?
- 34.₹2000 earns ₹160 simple interest in 2 years. What is the rate of interest per year, in percent?
- 35.The price of a kite changes from ₹150 to ₹180. What is the percentage change?
- 36.What is the percentage difference between 100 and 300?
- 37.₹2500 earns ₹150 simple interest in 2 years. What is the rate of interest per year, in percent?
- 38.A football marked ₹600 has 27% off in a sale. What is the sale price, in rupees?
- 39.A shopkeeper buys a lunch box for ₹250 and sells it at a profit of 48%. What is the selling price, in rupees?
- 40.The price of a cricket bat goes up from ₹200 to ₹256. What is the percentage increase?
Answer key
- 80
- 72
- 50% decrease
- 180
- 32
- 117
- 180
- 68
- 216
- 441
- 4
- 40
- 38
- 15
- 30
- 65
- 75
- 8
- 60
- 345
- 50
- 25
- 39
- 35
- 5
- 49
- 255
- 152
- 55
- 25
- 90
- 71
- 328
- 4
- 20
- 100
- 3
- 438
- 370
- 28
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