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Revision Exercise 7 Percentages (I)

 Level 1
1. Mrs Chan’s monthly salary is $8000. She saves $2000 per month. What percentage of her
monthly salary is saved?

2. The body of an adult is 65% water by weight. If Mr Chan weighs 80 kg, find the amount of
water (in kg) in his body.

3. Mrs Wong bought 200 light bulbs. If 2% of the bulbs are broken on delivery, how many light
bulbs are in good condition?

4. An alcoholic drink contains 7.5% alcohol by volume. What is the total volume of the drink if
the drink contains 30 mL of alcohol?

5. There are 160 people in a swimming pool. 20% of the people are male adults, 35% are female
adults and the remaining are children. How many children are there in the swimming pool?

6. 35% of the students in a school joined the singing contest and 650 students did not join. Find
the total number of students in the school.

7. The scores of Issac in the first test and the second test are 20 and 40 respectively. Find the
percentage change in his test score.

8. The price of a painting is $4000. If the percentage change in price is 25%, find the new price
of the painting.

9. After a rubber band has been extended for 24 cm, its length is increased by 30%. Find the
original length and the new length of the rubber band.

10. The average temperature on Friday was 24C, and had fallen by 25% as compared with
Thursday. What was the average temperature on Thursday?

EYA 11. The tuition fees set by tutor A and tutor B are $200 and $360 per hour respectively. Now, these
fees are increased to $272 and $486 per hour respectively. Whose tuition fee has a larger

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percentage increase? Explain your answer.

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12. Rebecca buys 8 bottles of wine for $2500 and sells them at $400 each. What is the profit per
cent?

EYA 13. The cost prices of an apple and an orange are $1.5 and $1.8 respectively. If each of them is
sold at a profit of $0.9 and $1 respectively, which of them has a higher profit per cent? Explain
your answer.

14. A lamp which costs $500 is sold at a loss of 25%.

(a) Find the selling price of the lamp.
(b) If Peter buys 3 lamps, how much does he need to pay?

15. Harry sells a pillow at a profit of 40% and the profit is $50. Find
(a) the cost price of the pillow,
(b) the selling price of the pillow.

16. A table is sold for $320 at a loss of 80%.

(a) Find the cost price of the table.
(b) Find the loss when selling the table.

17. If a book is sold for $260, the profit per cent is 30%.
(a) Find the cost price of the book.
(b) If the selling price of the book is reduced by 40%, find the loss per cent.

18. The marked price of a dress in a boutique is $360. The boutique offers a discount of 15% if a
customer buys 2 dresses. Find the total selling price of the 2 dresses.

19. The marked price of a calculator is $280. In a sale, it is sold for $200.
(a) Find the discount.
EYA (b) Joseph claims that the discount per cent is 40%. Do you agree? Explain your answer.

20. The selling price of an oven is $1440 after a discount of 10%. What is its marked price?

21. Peter buys a toy at a discount of 25% and he saves $35. What are the marked price and the
selling price of the toy?

22. The cost price of a necklace is $1600. The marked price of the necklace is 30% higher than its
cost price. If the necklace is now sold at 10% off, what is its selling price?

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 Level 2
23. There are 2500 books in a library. 1500 of them are in Chinese and the rest are in English. 8%
of the Chinese books and 5% of the English books are reference books.
(a) How many reference books are there in the library?
(b) What percentage of the books in the library are reference books?

24. In a violin examination, 2% of the candidates got grade A and 18% of the candidates got
grade B. If 160 candidates got grade C or below, find
(a) the total number of candidates in the violin examination,
(b) the number of candidates who got grade B in the violin examination.

25. 480 hamburgers were sold in a fast food restaurant on Monday. The number of hamburgers
sold was increased by 15% on Tuesday but then decreased by 96 on Wednesday. What is the
overall percentage change in the number of hamburgers sold from Monday to Wednesday?

26. The length of a rectangle decreases by 25% to 3 cm while its width increases by 10% to
2.2 cm.
(a) Find the original length and width of the rectangle.
(b) Find the percentage change in the perimeter of the rectangle.
(c) Find the percentage change in the area of the rectangle.

27. The weekly pocket money of Amy is $980, which is less than the weekly pocket money of
Harry by $490.
(a) By what percentage is the weekly pocket money of Amy less than that of Harry?
(b) By what percentage is the weekly pocket money of Harry more than that of Amy?

28. There are two batches of melons, each of which contains 110 melons. Each batch of melons is
divided into different ranks according to their weights.
Rank A B C D E
Number of melons in the 1st batch 77 15 8 5 5
Number of melons in the 2nd batch 68 25 6 6 5
(a) Find the percentage of the melons which are A-rank in the 1st batch.
(b) D-rank and E-rank melons are classified as ‘disqualified’.
(i) Find the percentage of the melons which are classified as ‘disqualified’ in the
2nd batch.
EYA (ii) Sally claims that the number of disqualified melons in the 2nd batch is 10% more
than that in the 1st batch. Do you agree? Explain your answer.

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29. Kelly buys 800 eggs at $1.5 each. If 50 eggs are broken and the remaining eggs are sold at $2
each, find the profit or loss per cent.

30. In an ice cream van, the marked price of a cup of ice cream is $16. If a customer buys 4 cups
of ice cream, he/she can get an extra cup for free. What is the discount per cent?

EYA 31. A model racing car is available in both toy shops A and B. The marked prices and the discount
per cents offered are given as follows:
Marked price Discount per cent
Toy shop A $550 22%
Toy shop B $500 15%
Which toy shop sells the model racing car at a lower price? Explain your answer.

EYA 32. Peter bought some apples for $3.6 each and sold them all at $4 each to James. Later, James
sold all the apples at $4.5 each in a market. Who earned a larger profit per cent? Explain your
answer.

33. Lily bought 2 bags A and B for $1000 and $1800 respectively. She sold bag A at a profit of
20% and bag B at a loss of 15%. Did Lily make an overall profit or suffer an overall loss, and
by what per cent?

EYA 34. David stays at a hotel for one night with a marked price of $1500 plus a 10% service charge on
the marked price. He can either use a cash coupon of $200 or a certain credit card for a
discount of 13% on the total bill inclusive of the service charge. Should David use the cash
coupon or the credit card? Explain your answer.

35. In a department store, the total cost price of 30 identical audio systems is $51 000. If each
audio system is sold at 15% off, the department store will make a profit of 25%. Find
(a) the profit of each audio system,
(b) the marked price of each audio system.

36. If the discount per cent of a motorbike in a showroom is changed from 12% to 15%, the selling
price will decrease by $900.
(a) Find the marked price of the motorbike.
(b) The cost price of the motorbike is $25 000. Find the profit per cent if it is sold at a
discount of 15% on its marked price.

37. Kenneth sold two wallets each at $990. He gained 10% on one wallet and lost 10% on another
wallet. Did he gain or lose on the whole, by what per cent?

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38. The marked price of a cup of special drink is $40. To promote the sales of the special drink,
customers buying 2, 3 and 4 cups of special drink can enjoy the following discounted prices.
Number of cups of special drink 2 3 4
Total selling price $75.2 $111.6 $147.2
(a) Find the discount per cents when a customer buys
(i) 2 cups of special drink,
(ii) 3 cups of special drink,
(iii) 4 cups of special drink.
(b) Vincent wants to buy 5 cups of special drink for his family. How can he get the largest
discount? What is the corresponding discount per cent?

39. Stephen bought 500 ping-pong balls for $500. He sold 400 ping-pong balls at the marked price
of $1 each. Find the total loss per cent for the 500 ping-pong balls if
(a) the last 100 ping-pong balls were sold at the same marked price each with a discount of
20%,
(b) 40 of the last 100 ping-pong balls were sold at $0.8 while the remaining 60 ping-pong
balls were not sold but thrown away.

EYA 40. A boutique offers the following two discount methods for customers to choose from.
Method 1:
Marked price of an item less than $200 $200  $500 more than $500
Discount per cent 8% 10% 12%

Method 2:
At least buy 4 items and get the cheapest item at 90% off.

Candy buys 4 items with marked prices $150, $250, $300 and $600. Which discount method
should she choose? Explain your answer.

EYA 41. Edward has 360 stamps. The number of stamps that Joe has is 25% less than that of Edward.
The number of stamps that Edward has is 25% more than that of Polly. Who has the least
number of stamps? Explain your answer.

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Multiple Choice Questions

1. In a school, 40% of the students are boys 6. Susan bought a music box for $240 and
and 570 students are girls. How many sold it at a loss of 25%. What is the selling
boys are there in the school? price?
A. 228 B. 342 A. $180
C. 380 D. 950 B. $192
C. $300
2. Find the percentage change when 50 is D. $320
changed to 140.
A. +40% 7. A refrigerator is sold for $4500 and the
B. +64% discount is $500. What is the discount
C. +80% per cent?
D. +180% A. 10%
B. 11.11%
3. In a school, there are 950 students, of C. 12.5%
whom 40% are boys. If 35% of the boys D. 20%
do not join any sports teams, find the
number of boys who are members of 8. The marked price of a magazine is $45. If
sports teams. Sam bought the magazine at 30% off, how
A. 133 much did he save?
B. 200 A. $31.5
C. 247 B. $30
D. 371 C. $22.5
D. $13.5
4. If B is 60% more than A, then A is
A. 37.5% less than B. 9. A shop sells a laptop for $6800 at 15% off.
B. 37.5% of B. Which of the following about the laptop
C. 60% less than B. is/are NOT correct?
D. 60% of B. I. The discount per cent is 15%.
II. The marked price of the laptop is
5. There are 40 yellow and blue A4 files in a $8000.
tray. If the number of yellow A4 files is III. The discount is $1020.
50% more than that of blue A4 files, how A. II only
many yellow A4 files are there in the tray? B. III only
A. 13 C. I and II only
B. 16 D. I and III only
C. 24
D. 27

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Multiple Choice Questions

10. The marked price of an electronic guitar is 11. The marked price of a dress is $480. If the
$9600 and it is sold at a discount of 25%. dress is sold at the marked price, the profit
If the cost price of the guitar is $6000, per cent is 20%. If the dress is sold at 10%
what is the profit per cent? off, then the profit is
A. 60% A. $20.
B. 37.5% B. $32.
C. 20% C. $40.
D. 12.5% D. $48.

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