Review exercise

Eva scores these marks in tests.

Convert them to percentages.
15 20 36
(d) Science 40 39
(a) French 20 (b) Maths 25 ()RE (e)IT 50

2 Convert these percentages to fractions in their lowest terms.

(a) Sale 25% off (b) 10% deposit required

(c) Music exam: distinction 80% (d) Deposit of 30% required

3 Convert these decimals to percentages.

(a) 0.55 (b) 0.72 (C) 0.6 (d) 0.255

4 ( a ) 35 of the 500 people on a train travel first class.

What percentage of the people travel first class?

(b) 700 people are given an injection. 49 of them get a slight temperature.
What percentage of the people get a temperature?
(C) 44 people out of 80 buy a programme at a rugby match.
What percentage of the people buy a programme?

A shop receives 700 light bulbs. 1% of them are faulty.

How many of the light bulbs are faulty?

A shop buys 500 batteries.

2% of them are faulty.
How many batteries are faulty?
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8 Sam buys a keyboard
priced at £550
He the
pays shopkeeper a deposit of 30% of the price of the
How much deposit does he pay? keyboard
9Helen buys a guitar priced at £180.
First she pays deposit of 30%.
a £180

(a) How much deposit does she pay?

(b) She then makes 12 monthly
of £13 payments
each. How much do these
payments come to altogether?
(c) What is the total of the deposit and the
12 monthly instalments?

(d) How much extra does she

pay for the guitar?
10 12 out of 60 calculators have flat batteries within two years.
What percentage is this?

1) 9 out of 30 pupils attain full marks in a Mathematics

What percentage of pupils is this?

12 12 textbooks out of 150 are thrown away at the end of the school year.
Some of their pages are no longer there.
What percentage is this?

13) The price of the following items goes up by 20%.

What are the new prices?
(a) CD £15 (b) jeans £45
(c) video recorder £250 (d) football ticket £25

1These items go down in value by the percentage shown.

What is the new value of each item?
(a) Bicycle £300, down 20%.

(b) Guitar £440, down 25%.

(C) Model car £30, down 50%.