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.One shop sells a football for ₹46 and another sells it for ₹54. What is the percentage difference between the two prices?
- 2.What is the percentage difference between 26 and 74?
- 3.A school bag costs ₹770 before tax and ₹847 after tax. What is the tax rate, in percent?
- 4.75% of a number is 135. What is the number?
- 5.A shopkeeper buys a cricket bat for ₹150 and sells it at a profit of 6%. What is the selling price, in rupees?
- 6.A shopkeeper buys a wall clock for ₹600 and sells it for ₹708. What is the profit percentage?
- 7.A tank holds 65 litres of water and 60% of it is used. How many litres are used?
- 8.12% of a number is 15. What is the number?
- 9.A shopkeeper buys a football for ₹800 and sells it for ₹904. What is the profit percentage?
- 10.A farmer picks 280 mangoes and 35% of them are ripe. How many mangoes are ripe?
- 11.A school club has 200 members. The number grows by 50%. How many members are there now?
- 12.Ishaan keeps ₹5000 in a bank at 8% simple interest a year. How many rupees of interest does Ishaan get in 3 years?
- 13.A shopkeeper buys a kite for ₹100 but has to sell it for ₹53. What is the loss percentage?
- 14.A farmer picks 540 mangoes and 15% of them are ripe. How many mangoes are ripe?
- 15.A shopkeeper buys a wall clock for ₹80 and sells it at a loss of 15%. What is the selling price, in rupees?
- 16.Arjun scored 172 marks out of 400 in 4 subjects (100 marks each). What is Arjun’s percentage?
- 17.What percent of 50 is 15?
- 18.A number changes from 500 to 335. Which is the right percentage change? (a) 43% decrease (b) 33% increase (c) 33% decrease (d) 43% increase
- 19.A football marked ₹400 has 36% off in a sale. What is the sale price, in rupees?
- 20.A lunch box marked ₹800 has 41% off in a sale. How many rupees do you save?
- 21.292 is 80% of ?
- 22.Meera scored 258 marks out of 300 in 3 subjects (100 marks each). What is Meera’s percentage?
- 23.?% of 20 = 10
- 24.80 children are in a school and 35% of them come by bus. How many children come by bus?
- 25.A price goes up by 40%, and then the new price goes up by 10%. What is the total percentage increase?
- 26.A shopkeeper buys a lunch box for ₹400 and sells it at a profit of 25%. How many rupees of profit does the shopkeeper make?
- 27.66 is what percent of 200?
- 28.40% of 375 =
- 29.Sara scored 186 marks out of 300 in 3 subjects (100 marks each). What is Sara’s percentage?
- 30.What is the percentage difference between 54 and 96?
- 31.Isha spent ₹15, which is 30% of the pocket money. How much pocket money did Isha have, in rupees?
- 32.A tank holds 410 litres of water and 30% of it is used. How many litres are used?
- 33.The price of a cricket bat changes from ₹60 to ₹48. What is the percentage change?
- 34.A shopkeeper buys a kite for ₹80 and sells it at a loss of 20%. What is the selling price, in rupees?
- 35.The price of a toy car goes up from ₹300 to ₹399. What is the percentage increase?
- 36.A number changes from 40 to 72. Which is the right percentage change? (a) 32% decrease (b) 80% decrease (c) 32% increase (d) 80% increase
- 37.A shopkeeper buys a school bag for ₹600 and sells it for ₹816. What is the profit percentage?
- 38.A cricket bat marked ₹300 has 17% off in a sale. What is the sale price, in rupees?
- 39.What percent of 150 is 24?
- 40.What percent of 200 is 154?
Answer key
- 16
- 96
- 10
- 180
- 159
- 18
- 39
- 125
- 13
- 98
- 300
- 1200
- 47
- 81
- 68
- 43
- 30
- 33% decrease
- 256
- 328
- 365
- 86
- 50
- 28
- 54
- 100
- 33
- 150
- 62
- 56
- 50
- 123
- 20
- 64
- 33
- 80% increase
- 36
- 249
- 16
- 77
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