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Mental Arithmetic - Percentages

The document contains 15 multiple choice questions about calculating percentages. It provides the questions, workings and answers for problems involving finding percentages of numbers, percentage increases and decreases, and converting fractions to percentages.

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Mental Arithmetic - Percentages

The document contains 15 multiple choice questions about calculating percentages. It provides the questions, workings and answers for problems involving finding percentages of numbers, percentage increases and decreases, and converting fractions to percentages.

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Mental Arithmetic - Percentages

Seria Questions Working Answers


l No.
1. What Fraction is 37% 37/100 37/100

2. What % is 2/5 2/5 *20/20 = 40/100 = 40% 40%

3. Find 5% of 48 5/100 * 48 = 2.4 2.4

4. Out of 24 girls in a class, 6 have 6/24 x 100 = 1/ 4 x 100 = 25% 25%


Black hair. What % is this?

5. Find 12% of 5.60 12/100 x 5.60 = 0.12 x 5.60 0.672


=0.672

6. In a test, a boy got 48 out of 60. 48/60 x100 = 48/6 x 10 = 8 x 80%


What % did he get? 10 = 80%

7. The population of a town in 130/100 x 15000 = 130 x 150 = 19,500


1980 was 15000. By 1990 it had 19,500
increased by 30%. What was
the population in 1990?
8. Find 15% of 8.40 15/ 100 x 8.40 = 0.15 x 8.40 1.26
=1.26

9. Write the fraction 126/3 in 126 / 3 x 100 = 42 x 100 = 4200 4200%


percentage

10. Out of 800 people in a school, 500/800 x 100 = 5/8 x 100 = 62.5 %
500 have school dinners. What 0.625 x 100 = 62.5%
% is this?
11. Find 35% of 4200 35/100 x 4200= 35 x 42 = 1,470 1,470

12. An article was bought for 12, 80/ 100 x 12 = 0.8 x 12 = 9.6 9.6
and sold at a loss of 20%. What
was it sold for?
13. The number in a school in 1990 (600 – 500 / 500) x 100 = 20% 20 %
was 500. In 1995 it was 600.
What % increase is this?
14. An article is advertised at "3.20 3.20 + 17 % 3.744
+ VAT" If VAT is 17%, what is 3.20 + 17/100 of 3.20 = 3.20 +
the price including VAT. 0.544= 3.744
15. The number of pupils in a school a) In 1991 In 1991 = 660
in 1990 was 600. In 1991 the 110/100 x 600 In 1992 = 594
number increased by 10%. In = 1.1 x 600 = 660
1992 it decreased by 10%. What b) In 1992
was it in 1992? 90 / 100 x 660= 9 x 66 =
594

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