What you have learnt * Finding the Whole when a Percentage is Known * Change in Percentage * Solving Word Problems nn 1) Express each fraction as a percentage. 3 43 a) ase be 1 os dae 4) 5- 28 eon ©) 500 = 00 2) Express each percentage as a fraction in its simplest form. a) 8% = b) 45% = <) 64% = d) 95% = . © 2008 Macsall Cavendish international singapore) Private Limited GEeragRLETS Moths Builder 6A 37 Scanned with CamScanner“Express each decimal as a percentage. a) 0.09 = b) 0.51= | dlls d) 1.33 = | | | | 4° Express each percentage as a decimal. a) 5% = b) 29% = | c) 100% = d) 120% = | | | / 5 What percentage ofthe figure is shaded? a) Giapigtsti Moths Builder 6A b) % © 2009 Masha Cavendish International (singapce) Private Limited Scanned with CamScanner& 0) Shade 36% of this figure. b) Shade 75% of this figure. > Find the value of each of the following. 4a) 30% of 200 kg b) 7% of $150 | Bg Fill in the boxes with the correct answers. 8» From Olive's monthly salary of $3200, $960 is spent on her children’s education. What percentage of her salary is spent on the children’s education? (__) 9 Atasale, a discount of 35% is given for all items. A large curtain costs $400 before the discount. What is the price of the curtain after the discount? _) D> The enrolment ofa certain primary school is 820. Of this enrolment, 5% are Mane bers of the Red Cross Society, How many members are there in the Red Cross Society? (© 2008 Marshall Cavendish intesmatina (Singapore) Private smited Gee Maths Bader 6A 39° Scanned with CamScannerGO Finding the Whole when a Percentage is Known a ~ Fill in the boxes with the correct answers. FW Be 1 Work out the following: a) 50% of a number is 21. What is the number? b) 15% of the number of marbles in a box is 30 marbles. How many marbles are there in the box? i €) 40% of a sum of money is $720. How much is the sum of money? $ Work out the following: a) 16% of a number is 80. What is the number? b) 35% of the mass of flour in a packet is 280 g. What is the mass of the flour in the packet? ¢) 13% of the volume of sauce in the bottle is 19.5 ml. What is the volume of sauce in a bottle? ml 40 Giestagftistto Maths Builder 6A (© 2009 Marshall Cavendish international (Singapore) Private ited Scanned with CamScanner1 2009 marshal Cavendish ternational Singapore) Pate ited 65% of the seats in « «; cing how many seats are there i le occupied, If 108 seats are unoccupied, C_) she paid $28.70 for the 7% GST. How much When Indrani bought did the necklace cost bene oe (_) The price of a computer table is $112.35, inclusive of 7% GST. How much does it cost before GST? *_) Ramasamy had many potted plants in his nursery. After selling off 15% of the potted plants, he had 425 potted plants left. How many potted plants had he at first? 0% = 15% 100% GhephgNistio Moths Builder 6A 4) Scanned with CamScannerDA Cheer cor red J Word Purl Gone Mor Points inthe 1st game thon inthe 2nd game of 2 Points did he score in ee his score in the 1st game. How many O% 24% 100% eC t——_SC. es 12 points CJ The 7% GST for o ceiling fan is $14.70. What isthe price ofthe ceiling fan inclusive of GST? 100% 107% ees) $14.70 ) | 7 (_) 42 Cheap Moths Builder 6A (© 2009 Marshall Cavendish international ina rnnend me Scanned with Cam:Of the people preser a ocala the I tat an outdoor rt, y children. The rest - people were present atthe ome 1 tere wre 159 parfornr, how nny 55% were adults and + were 0% 55% 100% | Adults Children [Performers] i 153 47 25% C_) Higher-order Thinking Skills Fo Kotijoh donated 35% of her prize money to charity, gave + ofthe prize money to her parents and saved the rest. The difference between the amount donated to charity and the amount given to her parents was $375. How mucn was her prize money? me 1 Charity Savings| Parents | 7 Limited Gtafghtatis Moths Builder 6A 43, 2008 marshall Cavendish Internationa singapore) PE Scanned with CamScannerFO row se go Foul, Stella ond Tina shore box of safety pis stella ond Tina rot a of the sooty pins. Tina receved 3 times 05 mony safety pis 2 IE, safety pins, how many safety pins were there in the bor" olate beans. Geraldine’s share 40% of the chocolate beans and Se Geraldine, Hilda and Joko shared 0 box of choo Jate beans were there in the wos £ of Joko's share. Geraldine and Joko hed Joko had 36 chocolate beans. How many chocol box? Ss Desi, Ena and Li Ling shared the bill for a meal. Desi and Ena paid 60% of the bill For every 5 that Desi paid, Ena paid $4. Des’s share of the bill was $30. How much did the meal cost? Ad GkePagfts9 Moths Buider 6A {© 2009 Marshall Cavendish international (Singapore) Private Led Scanned with CamScannerChonge in Percentage Lah KS Fill in the boxes withthe correct g inswers, a The price of a poi Pair of j What was the Jeans was in, Percentage increqas 154 by $12. Its original pri increase in the price of the a; ee was $80. 0% ee $12 Original price $80 % Increase? C_) The original price of a cup of coffee was $1. The price ofthe same cup of coffee was incre cup ef aren by 20 cents. What was the percentage increase in the price of the (_): 3) The original price of leather belt was $48. The price of the some belt after discount was $36. Express the discount as a percentage of the original price. me Original price $48 a % Discount? ace cen coven wil ne ited Scanned with CamScannerlost year. What is the BE Zora, height this year is 130 or _She woe oan Percentage increase in her heig! Co 41 This week, 207 Lost week, 180 people took part in a civil defence es ou eens rie tock pert in the'sore dil. What i the percentog? a people who took part in the dil this wee! Cc) iss for the blouse after se was $42. Elaine paid $8.40 le sunt did Elaine receive? 6 The usual price of a blou discount. What percentage discot 100% 0% — $8.40 = % Discount? (__ ‘After some rice was removed from a sack, the mass of the sack of rice decreased from 10 kg to 6.25 kg. What percentage of the mass of rice was removed from i the sack? ‘Maths Builder 6A ig Ceptsto © 20 nasa coven mtenatonal (Snap) | Scanned with CamScannerThe height of the See Oe Wot rid we np won ial 8 bem. ; . Wet soceeal et ale wen droined away)? ons) fo Mr Liew had a 15% increase inhi heck et amounted to $195. What 0% _ 100% «115% a Salary alter increase? ( Higher-order Thinking Skills Ys mass was reduced by 5% fo Aer following fitness programme for a month, Le to 57 kg a) What was Leo's mass before the fitness programme? B} Leo continued the programme for nother month, reducing his mass by 5%. What was Leo's mass at the end of the second month? Gaeta Moths Bulider 6A a7 nena (gave) ove ete Scanned with CamScanner| tests, She scored 105, } | & 5 ‘out of 400 in tests if the H ) more See nd sere ein the second semester tog ; o} How many more mars d ster tests as a ? he second somes red in the possible mark remain b) Express the total marks Sue S07. percentage of the total possib! } i i i ] | : if Mr Phang bought 2 similar handphones during a sale. He paid $105 less than what he would have paid for each phone originally. During the sale, all items were sold at a discount of 15%. GST was not included. a) How much did each handphone cost before the discount? bb) How much did Mr Phang pay for his two handphones? 48° Gbapaghtetts Moths Builder 6A © 2009 Marsh a ol vedshmterana nena al Scanned with CamScannerr solving Word Problems 7 You may use a calculator to solve these problems. Ken sold 104 | 5 BB cnet 04 comic books ths woek than lost week. The decrease wos comic books last week. How many comic books did he sll this week? Last week This week SSS ? 104 2 The area of a lawn was increased by 20% to 960 m?. What was the area of the lawn before the increase? o% 100% 120% 960m? (© 2009 Marshall Cavendish international singapore) Pivate Limited Gtefghistis Maths Builder 6A” 49° Scanned with CamScannerJ TB The price of a ekrigerator wos decrecsed by 15% to $935. What wos the price of the refrigerator Lefore the decrease? on 85% 100% _ tt l $935 AIF reduce my original number by 15%, I get the number 170. What number will I get if I increase my original number by 35%? 0% 85% 100% 135% +. tt a 170 5 50 Gtagtaghtstis Maths Builder 64 ‘© 2009 Marshall Cavendish Intemational (Singapore) Private Ui Scanned with CamScanner(Bh think ofa number 11; 15, 1 get 390. What the number that om thee OY oom ond re I ot 0% 135% a es el | 6 Agnes received $220 from her uncle. She saved $77 and spent 75% of the remaining amount on gifts for an orphanage. a) What percentage of her money did she save? b) How much did she spend on the gifts? 0% 100%, $77 75% of the remainder $220 {© 2009 Marshall Cavendish international (singapore) Private Lied Cifapftal Moths builder 6A 5) Scanned with CamScanner52 te buttons a} Whee white and the rest are brown. b) t percentage of the buttons are Many more brown buttons than brown’ bl T® cre 360 buttons in « box. 30% of the buttons ore black. 25% of the ? lack buttons are there in the box? $00 students took a fitness test. 60% of them received the bronze standard, 1 2 of the remainder received the silver standard and the rest received the gold standard, fl What 0% Percentage of the students received the gold standard? 9) How many received the silver standard? Bronze ight Moths Bulder 6A ©2009 Marshall Cavendish ternational (singapore) rte Scanned with CamScanner 1Higher-order Thinking skits At a hawke ® Malay food and 40% ofthe stalls serve Chinese food. 32% ofthe stals serve adh ‘maining 7 stalls serve Indian food. al Hoe ManU stalls serve Chinese foc ow many more Malay food sta than Indian food stals are there? 10 Gillian spent 53% of her pocket money in the first week and the rest of her money in the second week. If she had spent $3.90 less in the first week, she would have spent the same amount each week. 1a) How much pocket money did she have? b) How much did she spend in the second week? {© 2009 Marshal Cavendish international Singapore) Pivatetmited Ghytghttls Moths Builder 6A 53 Scanned with CamScanner1 -_ sepives 52 sticks. IF Al seks. Ali ee se - fis shore by 20%, How mon, of ice-ct increa! DD Ati ond Rafi shore « bundle of eee i receives 8 fewer ice-cream sticks dle? ice-cream sticks are there in the bu 12. Pei Chun checked with two shops on the price of a particular model of DVD recorders, Alpha Shop offered a 15% discount on their usual price of $1080, Beta Shop offered a 20% discount on their usual price of $1150. Both shops charged GST at 7% after the discount. Which shop sold the DVD recorder at a cheaper price? How much cheaper was it? 1 54 Gheaghtetin Moths Builder 6A © 2008 marshal cae “shal Crensh mtematonal ease pe Ul i Scanned with CamScannerB 60% ofthe 1500 beads in a box are white and the rest are ble. The beads are oF wo sizes, medium and large. 3 of the white beods are large and 25% of the blue beads are medium. How many large beads are there in the box? 14 Ata school’s prize presentation ceremony, 600 seats were arranged at first. 30% of the seats were for parents and the rest were for students. As more parents wanted to attend the ceremony, the number of seats for pao was increased to 40%. 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