Rec-cap of all maths topics

Exercise 3

Percentages
Find ‘x% of y’
1. Work out 18% of £6572

2. There are 2500 passengers on a cruise ship

47% of these 2500 passengers are male
Work out 47% of 2500

Find the ‘new amount after a % increase/decrease’

3. Jess had to buy some fireworks for an event
The cost of the fireworks was £6500 plus VAT at 20%.
Work out the cost of the fireworks.

4. Jackie bought watch for Steve’s birthday.

The total cost of the watch was £450 plus VAT at 20%
Work out the cost of the watch

Express ‘x as a percentage of y’
5. Steve invited 24 people to his birthday party.
Only 16 of the people invited came to the party.
Express 16 as a percentage of 24.

6. A hospital has 750 patients

120 of these patients are children.
What percentage of the patients are children?

Find the ‘percentage change’

7. Scents is a shop that sells perfume
In 2016 Scents sold 3010 bottles
In 2017 Scents sold 2840 bottles

Work out the percentage decrease in the number of bottles sold

8. In 2015 the number of visitors to a museum was 240,700

In 2016 the number of visitors to a museum was 270,500

Work out the percentage increase in number of visitors

Find the ‘original value’

9. Jason buys a suitcase in the sale.
The normal price of the suitcase is reduced by 15%
Miles paid £221 in the sale.

Work out the normal price of the suitcase

10. Lora’s oil painting has just been valued at £3500

This is a 18% increase on the price she paid for the painting

Work out how much Lora paid for the painting

Ratios
11. An aunt leaves £250,000 to her nieces, Mary and Rose.
The money is divided between Mary and Rose in the ratio 6:4

Work out how much money Rose receives

12. Alan, Ross and Kevin share 90 biscuits in the ratio 4:3:2
Work out the number of biscuits that each of them receives.

13. Mason and Joey share some money in the ratio 5:7
Joey gets £20 more than Mason

How much money did Mason get?

Mean, Median, Mode, Range

14. James made a list of his friends shoe sizes
7, 9, 6, 7, 8, 12, 10, 7, 7, 11

a. What is the mode of the shoe sizes?

b. Work out the mean shoe size

15. Anna picked 10 numbers from 1 to 30

Here are his scores
17, 23, 7, 26, 5, 12, 18, 9, 21, 14

a. Work out the median of the numbers

b. Work out the mean of the numbers
c. Work out the range of the numbers