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LESSON : MATH

CHAPTER : VIII - Percentage

NAME :

DATE :

Solve the following percent problems and show your workings.

1. A toy car is on sale for 40% off. If the original price was $40, what is the new sales
price?
2. I want to buy a book that is on sale with a 50% discount. If the sales price is $25, what
was the original price?
3. After serious negotiating you got $25 discount on a pair of sneakers. If the original
price of the sneakers was $125, what percentage discount did you get?
4. If you buy 2 pens you get a 50% discount on the second pen. If 1 pen costs $2.30, how
much will 2 pens cost you?
5. I got a $12 dollar discount on a $60 head set. What was the percentage discount I got?
6. I got a 12% discount on a pair of jeans and a 25% discount on a t-shirt. If the original
price of the jeans was $100 and that of the t-shirt $50, how much did I pay for both
items?

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75% of £20 =
150% of £10 = 50% of £50 =

50% of £150 =
200% of £2 = 25% of £20 =

33.3% of £30 =
300% of £5 = 10% of £100 =

66.6% of £30 =
110%
1) Topshop are having a massive saleof £30 = and the pair20%
(wahoo!), of £100
of jeans = have
that you
wanted for ages has been reduced to 75% of the original price! If the jeans originally
cost £40, how much do they cost now?

1% of £200 =
2) You pop into Sainsbury’s to buy a of
125% bag£40
of popcorn,
= 50%
and find thatofit £5 = offer! It used
is on
to cost £2 a bag, but it is now 60% of the original price. How much does it cost now?

2%You
3) of £200
go into=a local bakery shop and see that a yummy looking pie has been
101% of £100 = 10% of £5 =
REDUCED by 10%. If it originally cost £1, how much will it cost now?

60% of £5 =
4) Oh no! The laptop that you have been saving up all of your pocket money for has
INCREASED in price by 25%! If used to cost £400. How much does it cost now?

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