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 number changes from 50 to 45. Which is the right percentage change? (a) 5% increase (b) 10% increase (c) 5% decrease (d) 10% decrease
- 2.10% of a number is 6. What is the number?
- 3.80% of a number is 28. What is the number?
- 4.₹1500 earns ₹120 simple interest at 2% a year. For how many years was it kept?
- 5.What percent of 50 is 38?
- 6.50% of a number is 51. What is the number?
- 7.A shopkeeper buys a wall clock for ₹40 and sells it for ₹42. What is the profit percentage?
- 8.A wall clock is marked ₹100. In a sale it is sold for ₹72. What is the discount percentage?
- 9.What percent of 500 is 40?
- 10.90% of 480 =
- 11.Rohan scored 455 marks out of 500 in 5 subjects (100 marks each). What is Rohan’s percentage?
- 12.A shopkeeper buys a pencil box for ₹40 and sells it at a profit of 45%. How many rupees of profit does the shopkeeper make?
- 13.A team scored 20 runs in one match and 5% fewer in the next. How many runs did it score in the next match?
- 14.A school club has 25 members. The number grows by 52%. How many members are there now?
- 15.A toy car marked ₹400 has 23% off in a sale. How many rupees do you save?
- 16.A test has 200 marks. To get 91%, how many marks does Ishaan need?
- 17.Riya keeps ₹2500 in a bank at 9% simple interest a year. How many rupees of interest does Riya get in 2 years?
- 18.2% of 100 =
- 19.A shopkeeper buys a table fan for ₹200 and sells it at a loss of 46%. How many rupees does the shopkeeper lose?
- 20.Anaya scored 28 out of 50 in a maths test. What percentage did Anaya score?
- 21.What percent of 400 is 128?
- 22.One shop sells a school bag for ₹42 and another sells it for ₹108. What is the percentage difference between the two prices?
- 23.A shopkeeper buys a cricket bat for ₹200 and sells it at a loss of 41%. How many rupees does the shopkeeper lose?
- 24.A school club grows from 500 members to 750 members. What is the percentage increase?
- 25.A shopkeeper buys a storybook for ₹120 and sells it at a profit of 35%. How many rupees of profit does the shopkeeper make?
- 26.₹1000 earns ₹320 simple interest at 8% a year. For how many years was it kept?
- 27.A price of ₹500 goes up by 30%, and then the new price goes up by 10%. What is the final price, in rupees?
- 28.A shopkeeper buys a storybook for ₹50 and sells it at a profit of 36%. How many rupees of profit does the shopkeeper make?
- 29.A test has 500 marks. To get 76%, how many marks does Dev need?
- 30.A number changes from 150 to 66. Which is the right percentage change? (a) 84% increase (b) 56% increase (c) 56% decrease (d) 84% decrease
- 31.A price of ₹100 goes up by 20%, and then the new price comes down by 50%. What is the final price, in rupees?
- 32.Rohan scored 21 out of 50 in a maths test. What percentage did Rohan score?
- 33.A shopkeeper buys a cricket bat for ₹400 and sells it at a profit of 35%. What is the selling price, in rupees?
- 34.36 is what percent of 120?
- 35.Riya keeps ₹3000 in a bank at 5% simple interest a year. How many rupees of interest does Riya get in 5 years?
- 36.A shopkeeper buys a kite for ₹200 and sells it for ₹248. What is the profit percentage?
- 37.A price goes up by 10%, and then the new price goes up by 10%. What is the total percentage increase?
- 38.A shopkeeper buys a lunch box for ₹120 and sells it at a profit of 25%. What is the selling price, in rupees?
- 39.Meera spent ₹11, which is 5% of the pocket money. How much pocket money did Meera have, in rupees?
- 40.A school club grows from 120 members to 138 members. What is the percentage increase?
Answer key
- 10% decrease
- 60
- 35
- 4
- 76
- 102
- 5
- 28
- 8
- 432
- 91
- 18
- 19
- 38
- 92
- 182
- 450
- 2
- 92
- 56
- 32
- 88
- 82
- 50
- 42
- 4
- 715
- 18
- 380
- 56% decrease
- 60
- 42
- 540
- 30
- 750
- 24
- 21
- 150
- 220
- 15
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