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A family want sees the kitchen they want priced at $7200 but it is offered at discount of
40% in a sale. What is the sale price?
2. A farmer produced 8000 tonnes of grain last year. He plans to increase this bby 15% next
year. How many tonnes does he think he will produce?
3. An airline has a fleet of 80 planes. Of these, 10 are being serviced at any one time. What
percentage of the fleet is available?
4. At a Cambridge collage, 65% of the maths students come from England. If there are 240
Maths students, how many are not from England?
5. In a village of 3500 ppeople, 12% are left-hended, and 15 % of the left hended people
have blonde hair. How many people in the village are blonde and left-handed?
6. There are 500 students in a school. 220 of them are female.
What percentage of the school is:
a. Female
b. Male
7. In a survey of 100 cars, 45 were silver, 13 were blue and 30 were red. Express each of
these numbers as a fraction, a decimal and a percentage of the total.
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8. Two school hold their school play on the same evening. At one school, 20 of the audience
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are children. At the other, 5 of the audience are children. Which school has the highest
proportion of children in the highest proportion of children in the audience?
9. A car manufacturer produces 175 000 sports cars a year. They are only available in white,
black and red. 52 500 are white, 78 750 are black and the rest are red.
a. What percentage of the cars are black?
b. What percentage are white?
c. What percentage are red?