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Understanding Percentages Worksheet

Help plan a weekend market stall. Percentages describe parts of a whole out of 100. Read each task carefully and show your working where needed.

Make sense of the whole

Use the hundred-square to picture percentages. Each small square is 1% of the whole.

1.The stall has a tray of 100 mini muffins. What does 100% of the tray mean?
  • 25 muffins
  • 50 muffins
  • All 100 muffins
  • No muffins
2.The hundred-square shows 25 shaded squares. What percentage is shaded, and what fraction of the square is shaded?
3.A jar is 50% full of lemonade. Is it less than half full, exactly half full or more than half full? Explain briefly.

Convert and compare

Connect percentages with fractions, decimals and positions between 0 and 1.

4.Match each percentage to its equivalent fraction: 50%, 25%, 75%, 10%.
  • 50%
  • 25%
  • 75%
  • 10%
  • 3/4
  • 1/2
  • 1/10
  • 1/4
5.At the stall, 0.6 of the apples are red. Write 0.6 as a percentage.
6.Place 0%, 25%, 50%, 75% and 100% in the correct positions on the number line. What percentage is halfway between 50% and 100%?
0255075100

Plan the market stall

Use percentages to solve real market problems. Show a calculation or explain your thinking.

7.A tray holds 40 lamingtons. The stall sells 25% of them before lunch. How many lamingtons are sold?
8.There are 20 bottles of water in a cooler. One quarter are chilled. What percentage of the bottles are chilled, and how many bottles is that?
9.The stall made 100 biscuits. By the end of the day, 68% had been sold. What percentage of the biscuits are left, and how many biscuits is that?
10.Order these portions from smallest to largest: 0.4, 55%, 1/2, 75%. Write each as a percentage first if that helps.
11.A sign says, “20% off” a $10 reusable bag. How many dollars are taken off the price? What is the new price?

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  • Understanding Percentages Worksheet, page 1 of 3: Make sense of the whole

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  • Understanding Percentages Worksheet, page 2 of 3: Convert and compare, Plan the market stall

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  • Understanding Percentages Worksheet, page 3 of 3: 8. There are 20 bottles of water in a cooler. One quarter are chilled. What

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