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Finding Percentages of Amounts

1. Complete the questions below.

1 1 2
a) c) e)
2 of 84 = .............. 10 of 70 = .............. 10 of 80 = ..............

b) 1 d) 1 f) 2
4 of 160 = .............. 5 of 150 = .............. 5 of 60 = ..............

2. Now find the answers to these percentage questions.

Tip: Use equivalent fractions to help you work these out.

a) 50% of 300 = .............. d) 10% of 210 = ..............

b) 50% of 200 = .............. e) 25% of 300 = .............. g) 20% of 550 = ..............

c) 10% of 550 = .............. f) 25% of 200 = .............. h) 20% of 210 = ..............

3. Now look at the percentage questions below.

Can you show two different ways to solve each of them?

25% of 320 = .............. 20% of 250 = ..............

Method 1: Method 1:

Method 2: Method 2:

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4. Work out each of these mystery numbers. Can you work out what each one is?

21 is 10% of my number. 40 is 20% of my number. 200 is 25% of my number.

What is my number? What is my number? What is my number?

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5. Now solve these problems. Don’t forget to show your working.

a) There are 70 children at a party. All of the children have an ice cream.
1
 of the children have chocolate. 50% have vanilla. The rest have strawberry.
10
How many children have each type of ice cream?

Chocolate: Vanilla: Strawberry:

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b) A pair of trainers cost £48.40. They are 25% off in a sale.
How much do they cost now?

Ans:

£.........................

c) Mia and John find 600 magic beans in total. Mia finds 20% of the magic beans.
How many did John find?

Ans:

............................

d) Jesminder and Jack are monster hunters. They have £250 to spend on supplies.
Jesminder spends 2 of the money on ghost suckers.
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Jack spends 20% of the money on zombie zappers.
How much do they have left?

Ans:

£.........................

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