Year 8 Mathematics - Extension

Percentages
Problem Set 1 – Expressing and finding
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 Problem Set 3 – Decreasing and increasing

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 Problem Set 4 – Percentage change

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1. A number is increased by 20%. This results in the number being increased by 15.
What is the number?

2. A number is increased by 5%. This results in the number being increased by 34.
What is the number?

3. A number is increased by 4%. This results in the number being increased by 24.
What is the number?

4. A number is increased by 12½%. This results in the number being increased by 31.
What is the number?

5. Both the length and the width of a rectangle increase by 10%. What percentage does the
area grow by?
Choose some lengths and widths, increase them both by 10% and see how this affects the
area. Can you explain your result?

6. Two amounts of money, $A and $B sum to $300. When A is increased by 20% and B is
increased by 10% the overall sum is increased by 14%. What must A and B have been?
Suppose you do not know the total of A + B, what must the relationship be between A and B?

7. What is 50% of 2007 plus 2007% of 50?

8. If you wanted to buy three of the same item, which is the best deal?
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