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TB(1A) Ch. 4 Percentages (I)

Conventional Questions

1. [11-12 Mid-year, 9]
A ring has a cost price of $3 000 and a marked price of $x. If it is sold at a discount of 25%,
then it has a profit of 25%. Find
(a) the selling price of the ring. (2 marks)
(b) the value of x. (2 marks)
(c) the profit percent if the ring is sold at the marked price. (2 marks)

2. [11-12 Mid-year, 10]

A number of marbles are shared among April, May and June. April gets 30% of the marbles,
May gets twice as many as April gets and June gets the remaining marbles.
(a) If there are totally x marbles, express the number of marbles April, May and June get
in terms of x respectively. (2 marks)
(b) If May gives 3 marbles to June, the percentage increase of June’s marbles will be 150%.
Find the value of x. (3 marks)

3. [11-12 Final, 9]
The marked price of a travelling package includes a hotel room rent of $4 000 and an air ticket
of $6 000. In a peak season, the hotel offers a discount of 10% for the room rent, and the price
of the air ticket is increased by 10%. Find
(a) the percentage increase or decrease in the price of the travelling package. (4 marks)
(b) the cost price of the travelling package if the profit percent is 50% in the peak season.
(2 marks)

4. [12-13 Mid-year 8]
The cost price of a laser printer is $4 000. A shop owner marks its price at a profit of 20%.
(a) Find its marked price. (2 marks)
(b) If it is sold at a discount of $480, find its
(i) selling price. (2 marks)
(ii) actual loss or profit per cent. (2 marks)

5. [12-13 Mid-year 10]

In a bridge club, there were 40 and 56 members in the year 2010 and 2011 respectively. The
number of members in 2012 is 25% less than that in 2011.
(a) Find the percentage increase in the number of members from 2010 to 2011. (2 marks)
(b) Find the increase or decrease in the number of members from 2010 to 2012. (3 marks)
(c) Kitty claims that the number of members in 2012 is greater than that in 2010 by 2%. Do
you agree? Explain briefly. (2 marks)

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6. [12-13 Mid-year 12]

The marked price of an Airport Express ticket is $100. The following table shows the
promotional prices for various group tickets.

Group of 2 Group of 3 Group of 4

Group ticket
passengers passengers passengers
Promotional price ($) 140 180 200

(a) When passengers travel in a group of 4, they can buy tickets with the following choices:
Choice 1: 1 group ticket for 4 at $200
Choice 2: 1 group ticket for 3 at $180 plus 1 ticket at $100
Choice 3: 2 group tickets for 2 at $140  2
Which of the above choices has the largest discount per cent? Explain briefly. (2 marks)
(b) Mr Chan claims that he can get the largest discount of 40% for his family of x people.
How can he get the largest discount per cent? Find a possible value of x. (2 marks)

7. [13-14 Mid-year Exam]

Chloe paid $42 for a book at a student discount of 40%.
(a) Find the marked price of the book. (2 marks)
(b) If the cost of the book is $50, find the profit/loss per cent. (2 marks)

8. [13-14 Mid-year Exam]

$500 is shared among 10 winners of a game originally. By applying a new rule, the number of
winners increases by 150%.
(a) Find the new number of winners. (2 marks)
(b) Find the percentage decrease in the amount each winner can get. (2 marks)

9. [13-14 Mid-year Exam]

Karen bought 10 mobile phones at $x each. She sold 10 mobile phones to Ben at a profit of
10%. Ben then bought 5 cases at $100 each. Later, he sold 5 phones with cases at 20% profit
and the other 5 phones without cases at 10% profit.
(a) (i) Express the amount Ben got for selling a phone without case in terms of x. (1 mark)
(ii) Express the amount Ben got for selling a phone with case in terms of x. (2 marks)
(b) If Ben’s overall profit was $3400, find the value of x . (3 marks)
10. [13-14 S.6 Mock Exam #2]
A fund manager bought 85,000 shares of Stock A at a price of $3.85 per share. He then sold
35,000 shares at a price of $4.25 per share and 20,000 shares at a price of $3.45 per share. The
remaining shares were sold at a price of $3.15 per share. Find the profit or loss per cent on
selling all the shares. (3 marks)

11. [14-15 Standardized Test, 5]

A shop owner Chris bought a toy at $200. Chris sold the toy to Mary at a discount 20% of the
marked price and made a profit of 60%.
(a) Find the selling price of the toy. (2 marks)
(b) Find the marked price of the toy. (2 marks)
(c) Mary later sold the toy at a price equal to 8% of the marked price. Find her loss
percentage. (2 marks)

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12. [14-15 Final Exam, 11]

A shop owner bought two watches A and B. The cost price of watch A is $500. Watch A is sold
at a loss of 14%.
(a) Find the selling price of watch A. (2 marks)
(b) The cost price of watch B is 4 times that of watch A. In order to make an overall profit of
30% on selling the two watches, what should the profit per cent of watch B be? (3 marks)

13. [15-16 Final Exam, #4]

The cost price of a handbag is $800. If the marked price is 40% more than the cost price and
the handbag is sold at 10% discount, find
(a) the selling price, and (2 marks)
(b) the profit percentage of selling the handbag. (2 marks)

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