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 shopkeeper buys a storybook for ₹80 and sells it at a profit of 25%. How many rupees of profit does the shopkeeper make?
- 2.A farmer picks 450 mangoes and 4% of them are ripe. How many mangoes are ripe?
- 3.A number changes from 50 to 22. Which is the right percentage change? (a) 28% decrease (b) 28% increase (c) 56% decrease (d) 56% increase
- 4.What is the percentage difference between 82 and 78?
- 5.A team scored 50 runs in one match and 20% fewer in the next. How many runs did it score in the next match?
- 6.Isha spent ₹48, which is 60% of the pocket money. How much pocket money did Isha have, in rupees?
- 7.8% of 175 =
- 8.A shopkeeper buys a cricket bat for ₹400 and sells it at a profit of 38%. What is the selling price, in rupees?
- 9.261 is 75% of ?
- 10.180 children are in a school and 15% of them come by bus. How many children come by bus?
- 11.A number changes from 150 to 240. Which is the right percentage change? (a) 60% decrease (b) 90% decrease (c) 90% increase (d) 60% increase
- 12.A school club grows from 150 members to 240 members. What is the percentage increase?
- 13.What is the percentage difference between 71 and 129?
- 14.A school club grows from 500 members to 850 members. What is the percentage increase?
- 15.Arjun scored 12 out of 40 in a maths test. What percentage did Arjun score?
- 16.10% of a number is 5. What is the number?
- 17.A shopkeeper buys a pencil box for ₹50 and sells it at a loss of 34%. What is the selling price, in rupees?
- 18.One shop sells a table fan for ₹51 and another sells it for ₹69. What is the percentage difference between the two prices?
- 19.2% of 50 =
- 20.A team scored 300 runs in one match and 76% fewer in the next. How many runs did it score in the next match?
- 21.Isha keeps ₹2500 in a bank at 9% simple interest a year. How many rupees of interest does Isha get in 1 year?
- 22.50% of a number is 22. What is the number?
- 23.A shopkeeper buys a water bottle for ₹40 and sells it at a loss of 45%. How many rupees does the shopkeeper lose?
- 24.One shop sells a school bag for ₹36 and another sells it for ₹84. What is the percentage difference between the two prices?
- 25.A shopkeeper buys a school bag for ₹40 and sells it at a profit of 50%. How many rupees of profit does the shopkeeper make?
- 26.Dev keeps ₹1000 in a bank at 12% simple interest a year. How many rupees of interest does Dev get in 1 year?
- 27.The price of a table fan changes from ₹25 to ₹44. What is the percentage change?
- 28.?% of 50 = 8
- 29.?% of 60 = 15
- 30.Ishaan keeps ₹4000 in a bank at 5% simple interest a year. How many rupees of interest does Ishaan get in 2 years?
- 31.What is the percentage difference between 69 and 131?
- 32.A number changes from 100 to 93. Which is the right percentage change? (a) 7% increase (b) 17% increase (c) 17% decrease (d) 7% decrease
- 33.A shopkeeper buys a table fan for ₹250 and sells it at a profit of 18%. What is the selling price, in rupees?
- 34.A school club grows from 250 members to 300 members. What is the percentage increase?
- 35.Anaya scored 18 out of 20 in a maths test. What percentage did Anaya score?
- 36.3% of 200 =
- 37.Rohan spent ₹40, which is 10% of the pocket money. How much pocket money did Rohan have, in rupees?
- 38.A number changes from 120 to 66. Which is the right percentage change? (a) 45% decrease (b) 54% increase (c) 45% increase (d) 54% decrease
- 39.What is the percentage difference between 100 and 60?
- 40.A school bag costs ₹980 plus 5% GST. What is the total price, in rupees?
Answer key
- 20
- 18
- 56% decrease
- 5
- 40
- 80
- 14
- 552
- 348
- 27
- 60% increase
- 60
- 58
- 70
- 30
- 50
- 33
- 30
- 1
- 72
- 225
- 44
- 18
- 80
- 20
- 120
- 76
- 16
- 25
- 400
- 62
- 7% decrease
- 295
- 20
- 90
- 6
- 400
- 45% decrease
- 50
- 1029
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