Percentile Growth Rate Worksheet

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📊 Part 1: Understanding Percentile Growth Rate

1. What does percentile growth rate measure?

The percentage increase in a value over time

The ranking of a value compared to others

The average of all values in a dataset

The difference between the highest and lowest values

2. A company's revenue grows from £50,000 to £65,000. What is the percentile growth rate?

15%

23%

30%

77%

3. Which of the following scenarios would result in a negative growth rate? (Select all that apply)

Population decreases from 10,000 to 9,500

Sales increase from £2,000 to £2,400

Temperature drops from 15°C to 12°C

Profits rise from £800 to £1,200

🔢 Part 2: Calculations and Problem Solving

4. Calculate the percentile growth rate for each scenario. Show your working.

a) A school's student population increases from 1,200 to 1,380 pupils.

Growth rate = _________%

b) House prices in a town fall from £280,000 to £252,000.

Growth rate = _________%

5. A shop's monthly sales data shows:

January: £18,500 | February: £20,350 | March: £21,980

a) Calculate the growth rate from January to February:

b) Calculate the growth rate from February to March:

c) Which month showed the higher growth rate? _________________

🌍 Part 3: Real-Life Applications

6. A technology company's share price increased by 45% over one year. If the original price was £8.20 per share, what is the new share price?

New share price = £_________

7. The population of a city was 250,000 in 2020. By 2023, it had grown to 285,000. Calculate the total percentage growth over this 3-year period.

Total growth rate = _________%

8. Explain why understanding growth rates is important in real life. Give two specific examples.

9. A bakery's daily bread sales show a -12% growth rate compared to last month. If they sold an average of 150 loaves per day last month, how many loaves are they selling daily now?

Current daily sales = ________ loaves

Percentile Growth Rate Worksheet

Percentile Growth Rate Worksheet

📊 Part 1: Understanding Percentile Growth Rate

🔢 Part 2: Calculations and Problem Solving

🌍 Part 3: Real-Life Applications

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