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