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.The price of a kite changes from ₹120 to ₹96. What is the percentage change?
- 2.A shopkeeper buys a school bag for ₹100 and sells it at a profit of 37%. What is the selling price, in rupees?
- 3.Arjun keeps ₹1000 in a bank at 2% simple interest a year. How many rupees of interest does Arjun get in 3 years?
- 4.75% of a number is 240. What is the number?
- 5.A toy car is marked ₹100. In a sale it is sold for ₹83. What is the discount percentage?
- 6.The price of a pencil box changes from ₹40 to ₹60. What is the percentage change?
- 7.A shopkeeper buys a torch for ₹500 and sells it for ₹535. What is the profit percentage?
- 8.A shopkeeper buys a torch for ₹800 and sells it at a profit of 45%. What is the selling price, in rupees?
- 9.8% of 375 =
- 10.One shop sells a football for ₹42 and another sells it for ₹118. What is the percentage difference between the two prices?
- 11.A price of ₹500 goes up by 20%, and then the new price goes up by 20%. What is the final price, in rupees?
- 12.?% of 60 = 15
- 13.?% of 250 = 195
- 14.8% of 400 =
- 15.4% of 200 =
- 16.35% of 180 =
- 17.A shop sold 120 ice creams on Monday and 20% more on Tuesday. How many ice creams did it sell on Tuesday?
- 18.A number changes from 300 to 318. Which is the right percentage change? (a) 18% increase (b) 6% increase (c) 18% decrease (d) 6% decrease
- 19.A lunch box costs ₹100. The price goes up by 36%. What is the new price, in rupees?
- 20.The price of a football changes from ₹40 to ₹52. What is the percentage change?
- 21.The price of a football changes from ₹120 to ₹84. What is the percentage change?
- 22.A shopkeeper buys a football for ₹800 and sells it at a loss of 12%. How many rupees does the shopkeeper lose?
- 23.A storybook costs ₹1150 before GST and ₹1357 after GST. What is the GST rate, in percent?
- 24.A cricket bat is marked ₹300. In a sale it is sold for ₹270. What is the discount percentage?
- 25.A torch costs ₹460 before GST. How many rupees of GST at 5% are added?
- 26.The price of a toy car changes from ₹250 to ₹110. What is the percentage change?
- 27.64 is 80% of ?
- 28.30% of a number is 90. What is the number?
- 29.₹500 earns ₹45 simple interest in 1 year. What is the rate of interest per year, in percent?
- 30.279 is what percent of 300?
- 31.6 is 5% of ?
- 32.A football marked ₹400 has 43% off in a sale. What is the sale price, in rupees?
- 33.A shopkeeper buys a kite for ₹200 and sells it at a profit of 47%. How many rupees of profit does the shopkeeper make?
- 34.A tank had 25 litres of water. Now it has 10 litres. What is the percentage decrease?
- 35.A shopkeeper buys a toy car for ₹50 and sells it at a loss of 46%. What is the selling price, in rupees?
- 36.A school club grows from 300 members to 468 members. What is the percentage increase?
- 37.A shopkeeper buys a kite for ₹120 and sells it at a profit of 10%. What is the selling price, in rupees?
- 38.A shopkeeper buys a wall clock for ₹80 but has to sell it for ₹48. What is the loss percentage?
- 39.A pencil box costs ₹1175 before tax and ₹1316 after tax. What is the tax rate, in percent?
- 40.25% of a number is 17. What is the number?
Answer key
- 20
- 137
- 60
- 320
- 17
- 50
- 7
- 1160
- 30
- 95
- 720
- 25
- 78
- 32
- 8
- 63
- 144
- 6% increase
- 136
- 30
- 30
- 96
- 18
- 10
- 23
- 56
- 80
- 300
- 9
- 93
- 120
- 228
- 94
- 60
- 27
- 56
- 132
- 40
- 12
- 68
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