OXFORD / CANOTTA MATHS

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Exploring Mathematics 1A (2nd Edition)
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3 Percentages (I) Date：______________

Exercise Objectives
Use percentage to find a
1(a) Find the marked price. 7, 12(a)
number.

Find the required percentage. 1(b) 12(b),

3A 3D
Find the profit % or loss %.
Find the original number. 1(c) 13

Miscellaneous problem. 10 Find the cost price. 15

Find the percentage change. 14 Find the amount. 8

3B
Find the new or original value. 2, 11 Find the period of time. 9

3(a),
Find profit. Find the principal. 16
6(a) 3E

3C 3(b), 4,
Find profit % or loss %. Find the interest rate. 17
6(b)

Find the selling price. 5 Miscellaneous problem. 18

Conventional Questions
(Level 1)
1. (a) What is 36% of 900?
(b) What percentage of 900 is 36?
(c) 36% of x is 900. Find the value of x.

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2. If the weight of a man is increased by 22 % , it would become 66 kg. What is his original
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weight?

3. David bought a special stamp for $200. Later, he sold it at $370. Find
(a) the profit,
(b) the profit %.

4. Owing to the economic downturn, a sports shop sold 100 pairs of a kind of shoes at a discount
price of $200 each. If the cost of the shoes is $400 each, find the loss %.

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5. A book is marked for sale at $80 and it is sold at a discount of 25%, find the selling price.

6. Dick used $100 to buy 100 apples. If 11 apples were rotten and Dick sold the remaining apples
at $2.5 each, find
(a) the profit,
(b) the profit %.

7. After a 30% discount, a sports suit was sold at $350. Find its marked price.

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8. Find the simple interest and the amount for a deposit of $40 000 at 1 % p.a. for 3 years.
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9. Peter deposits $12 500 into a bank where simple interest is calculated at 4.5% p.a. If the
amount received is $17 000 after t years, find the value of t.

(Level 2)
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10. In 2004, the number of students in a school is 1 200 and 66 % of the students are boys. In
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2005, the number of boys is increased by 6 % and the number of girls remains unchanged.
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(a) Find the number of students in 2005.
(b) What percentage of the students in 2005 are boys?

11. If the value of x after increased by 40% is equal to the sum of 2 500 and the value of x after
decreased by 10%, find the value of x after decreased by 20%.

12. The cost of a camera is $2 000 and the marked price is 40% higher than the cost.
(a) Find the marked price of the camera.
(b) If the camera is sold at a discount of 10%, what is the profit %?

13. John bought three goods A, B and C at the prices $1 000, $2 000 and $3 000 respectively. Then
he sold the goods A, B and C at a profit of 50%, a profit of 20% and a loss of 40% respectively.
Find his profit or loss %.

14. The sales amount of a snack bar is $85 000 in the first half year and $102 000 in the second
half year.
(a) Find the percentage change in the sales amount.
(b) If the costs of the first half year and the second half year are $31 000 and $45 300
respectively, find the percentage change in the profit.

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15. During the big sale of a department store, all the goods are sold at a discount of 10%. If the
marked price of a television set is $11 000 and the profit per cent is 10%, find the cost of the
television set.

16. Deposit $x into a bank at an interest rate of 5% p.a. for 2 years. The simple interest received is
equal to 80% of the simple interest of depositing $11 000 at an interest rate of 4% p.a. for
3 years. Find the value of x.

17. Mr Chan deposits $25 000 into bank A at an interest rate of x% p.a. and deposits $30 000 into
bank B at an interest rate of 7%. If the simple interest received from bank B will be $3 400
more than that from bank A after 4 years, find the interest rate of bank A.

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18. Tony deposits a certain amount of money in a bank at 6 % p.a. simple interest for 3 years
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and receives an interest of $2 275. He then deposits the same amount of money in another
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bank at 7 % p.a. simple interest for 2 years and 9 months. Find
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(a) the amount of money deposited,
(b) the interest he receives from the second bank,
(c) the total interest he receives from these two banks.

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Multiple-choice Questions
1. In a company, 40% of the staff are female 5. An article is marked by an increase of
and the number of male staff is 120. What 40% on the cost. It is then sold at a
is the total number of staff in the discount of 40%. On the whole,
company? A. there is no profit or loss.
A. 168 B. there is a profit of 1.6%.
B. 192 C. there is a profit of 16%.
C. 200 D. there is a loss of 16%.
D. 300
6. Mary used $66 to buy a photo album of
2. A man bought a chair at a discount of marked price $75. Find the discount %.
35%. If he paid $182 for it, the discount is A. 12%
A. $98. B. 15%
B. $196. C. 85%
C. $280. D. 8.5%
D. $520.
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7. Deposit $7 200 into a bank for 2 years.
3. Mr Chan used $120 to buy 80 oranges. If 2
he sold at $10 for 5 oranges and all The bank pays simple interest at a certain
oranges are sold out, find the profit or loss interest rate per year. If the amount
%. received is $9 600 at the end of the period,
A. a profit of 25% what is the interest rate per year?
1 A. 6%
B. a profit of 33 %
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C. a loss of 25% B. 6 %
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D. a loss of 33 % C. 10%
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D. 13 %
4. A book marked at $M was sold at a 3
discount of 20%. If the selling price of the
book is $120, then M = 8. If the interest rate on a certain sum of
A. 24. money is decreased from 5% p.a. to
B. 96. 1
4 % p.a., the annual simple interest is
C. 100. 2
D. 150. decreased by $610. Find the sum of
money.
A. $120 000
B. $122 000
C. $132 000
D. $150 000

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