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Percentage Growth Rate Worksheet
For percentage growth, use (new value − original value) ÷ original value × 100. A negative answer shows a decrease. Show your calculations and round money to the nearest penny where needed.
Understanding Percentage Growth
1.What does a percentage growth rate describe?
- How much a value has changed compared with its starting value, expressed as a percentage
- How a value ranks against other values
- The average of several values
- The difference between the largest and smallest values
2.At a science museum, visitor numbers rise from 800 to 920 in one month. What is the percentage growth?
- 12%
- 15%
- 20%
- 115%
3.Which changes represent negative percentage growth? Select all that apply.
- A museum's daily visitors drop from 1,500 to 1,350
- A shop's takings rise from £1,600 to £1,840
- A tank's water level falls from 80 litres to 68 litres
- A club's membership rises from 240 to 300
Calculating Percentage Growth
4.A museum exhibition welcomes 1,250 visitors in its first week and 1,450 in its second week. Calculate the percentage growth in visitors.
5.A science museum's monthly heating cost falls from £320,000 to £288,000. Calculate the percentage growth rate, including the sign.
6.A museum café records these monthly takings: April, £24,000; May, £26,400; June, £27,720. Calculate the percentage growth from April to May.
7.Using the café takings of April £24,000, May £26,400 and June £27,720, calculate the percentage growth from May to June.
8.Based on the café takings of April £24,000, May £26,400 and June £27,720, which interval had the higher percentage growth: April to May or May to June?
Percentage Growth in Context
9.A science museum increases the price of a souvenir by 25%. It originally cost £6.40. What is the new price?
10.A town has 180,000 residents. Three years later, its population is 198,000. What is the total percentage growth over those three years?
11.Explain two ways that knowing percentage growth could help someone make a decision. Give a specific example for each way.
12.A museum shop sells an average of 250 postcards per day. The next month, daily sales decrease by 8%. How many postcards does it sell per day then?
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