Marilyn managed to sell 3/5 of her cakes. Shaun completed 3/4 of his jigsaw puzzle.

a. What percentage of cakes was sold? a. What percentage of jigsaw puzzle was completed?

b. What percentage of cakes was left? b. What percentage does he still need to complete?

Sally took two days to finish 7/8 of her school Pam bought 50 kg of sugar. She used 10 kg of sugar.
assignment. What percentage of sugar was left?
a. What percentage of her assignment was completed?

b. What percentage does she still need to complete?

Clark collected 200 fruits from his orchard. 56 of the Karen has $600. She spent $240 on clothes. What
fruits were durians and the rest were mangoes. What percentage of money did she have left?
percentage of the fruits were mangoes?

80 people took a driving test. 70 of them passed the Jesse had $350. She spent 45% of her money.
test. What percentage failed the test? a. How much money did she spend?

b. How much money does she have left?

The journey from town A to town B is 225 km. Harry There are 55 apples in a box. 20% of them were green
took 1 hour to complete 45% of the journey. and the rest were red.
a. How far has Harry travelled? a. How many apples in the box were green?

b. How much further does Harry need to travel? b. How many apples in the box were red?

Daisy bought 60 kg of flour. She used 35% of the flour to There were 30 marbles in a bag. 10% of them were blue
make cakes and 15% of the flour to make biscuits. and 60% of them were red. The rest are yellow.
a. How much flour did she use?? a. What percentage of the marbles is yellow?

b. How many yellow marbles were there?

b. How much flour does she have left?

Susan bought 25kg of meat. 15% of the meat was There are 500 tickets for a concert. 90% of the tickets
chicken and 45% of the meat was fish. The rest was were sold. 60% of the tickets sold were adult tickets and
beef. the rest sold were children tickets.
a. What percentage of meat bought was beef? a. How many tickets for adults were sold?

b. What mass of beef was bought? b. How many tickets for children were sold?

The price of sugar was increased from $2.50 a kilogram The price of a certain car was increased by 18% from the
by 10%. original price of $32 000. What is the difference
a. How much was the price increase? between the original price and new price?

b. What is the new price for 1 kilogram of sugar?

Jack had lunch in a restaurant. The food he ordered cost A car dealer is giving a 12% discount on a car that was
$56. He also had to pay 5% service charge. priced at $31 800.
a. How much was the service charge? a. How much is the discount?

b. How much did he pay for the lunch? b. What is the new selling price of the car?

The enrolment for a singing class was 50 students. After The price of a pair of shoes was reduced by 15% from
3 months, the enrolment dropped by 12%. What is the the original price of $65.
number of students in the class? a. How much is the price reduction?

b. What is the new price of the pair of shoes?

Alan bought a bowling ball for $12 and sold it for $15. c. Howard paid for the shoes with two $50 notes. How
a. What was his profit? much change should he receive?

b. What was his percentage profit?

Michael sold a handphone for $400. His bought the

The price of a certain handphone is $850. Customers get handphone at $360.
a 5% discount if they pay by cash. How much would a. What was his profit?
Evelyn save if she paid cash for the handphone?

b. What was his percentage profit?

A shop is selling a television set for $1 200. The cost for Jonathan bought a house at $250 000 and later sold it
the television set was $1 000. for $300 000.
a. What the profit? a. What was his profit?

b. What is the percentage profit? b. What was his percentage profit?

Zack bought a car for $20 000. Later he sold it at $18 A group of students were selling drinks at a school
000. carnival. They sold 250 drinks at $1 each. Their total cost
a. What was his loss? for the drinks is $80.
a. Did they make a profit or a loss?

b. What was his percentage loss?

b. How much was the profit or loss?

c. What was their profit percentage or loss percentage?

Finding the Base Number in a Percent

5 is 5% of what number?

12 is 1% of what number?

2 is 4% of what number?

1 is 5% of what number?

14 is 7% of what number?

4 is 5% of what number?

6.3 is 7% of what number?

18 is 15% of what number?

16 is 200% of what number?

12 is 150% of what number?

Find the percent of a number
What percent of 32 is 8?

What percent of 64 is 288?

What percent of 400 is 80?

What percent of 2 is 8?

What percent of 55 is 33?

What percent of 40 is 29?

What percent of 5 is 4?

What percent of 35 is 7?

What percent of 3 is 12?

What percent of 45 is 9?