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Mastering Percentages Worksheet

Help the stallholders check discounts, compare offers and plan their savings. Show your working for calculation questions. Use New Zealand dollars (NZ$).

Market maths

Use the market’s price board to solve the questions.

Item

Regular price

Offer

Rain jacket

$120

25% off

Water bottle

$36

15% off

Picnic blanket

$80

10% off

1.The rain jacket is marked 25% off. How many dollars will a shopper save, and what is its sale price?

2.The water bottle is discounted by 15%. Calculate the discount amount and the sale price.

3.A shopper says the picnic blanket’s 10% discount is $18. Is the shopper correct? Explain using the price board.

Plan the stall’s fundraiser

A group is selling fruit cups to raise money for a local beach clean-up.

4.The group prepares 200 fruit cups. By lunchtime, 65% have been sold. How many cups have been sold, and how many remain?

5.At the end of the day, 18 fruit cups remain unsold out of the original 200. What percentage of the cups were sold?

6.The group earned $360 from fruit cup sales and spent $90 on ingredients. What percentage of the sales income was spent on ingredients?

Percentage puzzles

Read each situation carefully. Remember that percentage changes are calculated from the amount at that stage.

7.A bicycle costs $560. Its price increases by 12% before the shop sale. What is the new price?

8.A $250 tent is reduced by 20%, then the reduced price is reduced by a further 10%. What is the final price?

9.A café adds 15% GST to a meal’s pre-GST price. The final price is $46. What was the price before GST?

10.Zoe saves 18% of her weekly pay of $520 for 10 weeks. She wants a second-hand kayak costing $900. Will she have enough? State how much she will have and how much more she needs, if any.