Professional Documents
Culture Documents
Higher Tier
Number Revision
Percentages
Percentages
'Percent' means 'out of 100'. If 90 per cent of the population owns a mobile phone, this means 90
out of every 100 people have one. The symbol '%' means per cent.
Remember: Take care when asked to find the original price of something.
Skills you need: To change back and forward from percentages to fractions and
decimals
Percent Change
Percentages of Amounts
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2. Sarah puts 8600 in a bank. The bank pays compound interest of 3.8% per year.
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3. Mary deposits 10000 in an account which pays 5.6% compound interest per year.
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5. Dave places 17000 in an account whic pays 4% compound interest per year.
How many years will it take before he has 19122.68 in the bank?
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What was the priceof the bike before the VAT was added?
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7. Beckys wage increases from 5.31 per hour to 6.05 per hour.
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9. 65% of the members of a sports club are male.
If there are 245 female members how many members are there altogether.
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10. Four friends share a meal which costs 26.50. They decided to leave a 20% tip.
If the total is shared equally how much will each friend pay?
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13. Increase 420 by 32%
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How many degrees would you need to shoe this on a pir chart?
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If the population had incresed by 18% during the year what was the population at the end of
2005?
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16. A market trader buys 25kg of apples at 40p per kg. She makes 70% profit on the first 20kg of
apples she sells. The rest she sells for 80% of the price she paid fot them.
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