Calculate the percentage discount on an item having a cost price of $45 and a sale price of $30.15. (2 marks)
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Calculate the percentage profit on an item having a cost price of $25 and a sale price of $46.25. (2 marks)
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Iggy bought an e-bike for $3500 in 2022 and sold it in 2023 for $2450 to pay for an overseas holiday.
- Calculate the loss that Iggy made. (1 mark)
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- Calculate the percentage loss on the original price. (2 marks)
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Janice bakes cupcakes for the local market. The ingredients she uses in each of the cupcakes cost $1.90.
Last weekend she sold the cupcakes for $3.99 each.
- What was Janice's profit per cupcake? (1 mark)
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- Calculate Janice's percentage profit per cupcake based on the cost of the ingredients. (2 marks)
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Mavis bought an original artwork as an investment. She paid
- Calculate the profit that Mavis made on her artwork. (1 mark)
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- Calculate the percentage profit based on the original price. (2 marks)
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Jeffrey bought a new car for
- Calculate the loss that Jeffrey made. (1 mark)
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- Calculate the percentage loss on the new car price. (2 marks)
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Jock is a real estate agent who is paid 2.5% commission on all house sales.
Last month he sold houses to the value of
How much pay did Jock receive in the form of commission last month? (2 marks)
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Louella is a boat broker who is paid 6.5% commission on all boat sales.
Last quarter she sold boats to the value of
How much pay did Louella receive in the form of commission last quarter? (2 marks)
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Hendry is a salesperson who is paid 5% commission on all sales.
Last month he sold goods to the value of
How much commission did Hendry receive last month? (2 marks)
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The sale price of a parrot is $400.
The pet store gives Albert 25% off the sale price.
Albert has a pet store discount voucher that gives him a further $60 off the sale price.
What percentage of the original price does Albert pay for the parrot? (2 marks)
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A family ticket to Taronga Zoo in Sydney reduced in price from $90 to $73.80.
What is the percentage decrease in the price? (2 marks)
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A coffee shop increases the price of a caramel latte from $4.80 to $6.00.
What is the percentage increase in the price? (2 marks)
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A loaf of bread is on sale with a 15% discount.
In the last hour of trading, the bread is reduced a further 20% on the already discounted price.
What is the overall percentage discount on the bread? (2 marks)
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A farmer sells a box of oranges to a supermarket with a 15% markup.
The supermarket then adds a further 20% on the already increased price.
What is the overall percentage markup on the box of oranges? (2 marks)
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A car dealer decreases the price of a car from $50 000 to $45 000.
What is the percentage decrease in the price? (2 marks)
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Lucia is saving her money to buy a jet ski.
After 3 months, she had saved 40% of the cost of the jet ski.
After 5 months, she had saved another $1200 and now had 60% of the cost of the jet ski.
How much does the jet ski cost? (2 marks)
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Which of these percentages is closest in value to
- 28%
- 47%
- 56%
- 57%
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Which of these percentages is closest in value to
- 54%
- 55%
- 56%
- 57%
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Lancelot bought a new round table for $2810.50 inclusive of 10% GST.
What was the price of the round table before the GST was added? (2 marks)
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Mickey bought a plane ticket to London for $1716 inclusive of 10% GST.
What was the price of the ticket before the GST was added? (2 marks)
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James purchased a pair of football boots for $358.05.
This price included 10% GST.
What was the price of the shoes before the GST was added? (2 marks)
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Minerva purchased a book online and a discount of 35% was applied at checkout.
If Minerva paid $29.90 with the discount, what was the original price of the book. (2 marks)
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Fred owns a property which is currently experiencing a drought.
Fred's dam is currently 30% below its maximum capacity.
Calculate the capacity of the dam when full if it currently holds
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Asti bought a formal dress that was on sale at a 75% discount.
Calculate the original price of the formal dress if the sale price was $60? (2 marks)
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Sachin's cricket bat is pictured below.
The handle of the bat is 29 cm in length.
What is the length of the handle as a percentage of the total length of the bat, to the nearest whole percentage? (2 marks)
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Bec is buying 40 kilograms of dry dog food for her bullmastiff.
The table below lists the original price and the amount of discount on a 40 kilogram bag of dry dog food at four different pet stores.
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Which shop has the lowest sale price for the jeans?
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Jye was checking his phone battery usage and found he spent his time listening to music, using social media and viewing YouTube videos.
Last week he spent 25 hours in total using his phone and the pie chart below shows the breakdown of his usage.
How much time did Jye spend on social media? (2 marks)
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Joy set up a cardio gym in her garage and purchased a treadmill, a rowing machine and a spin bike.
She spent $6000 in total and the pie chart below shows how she spent it.
How much money did Joy spend on the spin bike? (2 marks)
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A ring has a normal price tag of $320.
At sale time, it is reduced by 30%.
What it the sale price of the ring? (2 marks)
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A watch has a normal price tag of $240.
At sale time, it is reduced by 25%.
What it the sale price of the watch? (2 marks)
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A tree was 15 metres tall two years ago.
It was measured this year and its height had increased by 64%.
How tall is the tree now? (2 marks)
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The price of computer A is $500 and the price of computer B is 300% more than the price of computer A. What is the price of computer B?
- $2000
- $1500
- $1250
- $1000
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A fishing boat returns with 16 flathead, 7 bream and 9 flounder.
About what percentage of the fish are bream?
- 50%
- 28%
- 22%
- 21%
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In a classroom there are 24 boys and 36 girls.
What percentage of the students in the classroom are girls? (2 marks)
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Barry weighed 80 kg and started doing triathlons.
He lost 2.8 kg in the 1st month, 3 kg in the 2nd month and 2.2 kg in the 3rd month.
What percentage of his original weight did Barry lose? (2 marks)
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Gerry is streaming his favourite show on Paraflix.
Each episode is usually 50 minutes long.
Gerry keeps losing his internet connection and it takes 30% longer to watch tonight's episode.
How long did it take Gerry to watch tonight's episode? (2 marks)
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A pot weighed 12 kg when empty.
When filled with garden soil and plants, the pot weighs 35% more than when empty.
How much does the filled pot weigh? (2 marks)
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Which set of numbers is arranged from the smallest to the largest?
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Which set of numbers is arranged from the smallest to the largest?
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Express $18 as a percentage of $600.
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Express $20 as a percentage of $500.
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Which of the following fractions is equivalent to 0.1%?
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In 2015, some wilderness parks in Tasmania lost up to
What is
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Which of the following fractions is equivalent to 5%?
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John uses concrete in his landscaping business.
He makes a dry mix using 1 part cement, 2 parts sand and 3 parts gravel.
- Express the amount of gravel as a fraction of the total mix. Give your answer in simplest form. (1 mark)
- Express the amount of sand as a percentage of the total mix. (2 marks)
- Express the amount of cement compared to the total mix. Give your answer as a recurring decimal. (2 marks)
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Express the number of red building bricks above as:
- a fraction of the total number of building bricks, in simplest form. (1 mark)
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- a percentage of the total number of building bricks. (1 mark)
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Express the shaded area above as:
- a fraction of the total area, in simplest form. (1 mark)
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- a percentage of the total area. (1 mark)
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Graham has a bag containing coloured marbles.
There are 5 blue marbles, 4 white marbles and 6 green marbles in the bag.
- What percentage of the marbles in the bag are blue? Give your answer as a recurring decimal. (2 marks)
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- Graham removed 3 blue marbles. What percentage of the remaining marbles are green? (2 marks)
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Geordie achieved a mark of 31 out of 42 in his English essay.
Convert his mark to a percentage, correct to the nearest whole number. (2 marks)
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The population of Australian states in 2015 and 2016 is recorded in the table below.
Some data for Western Australia is not shown.
What was the population of Western Australia (WA) close to in 2016?
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Max wanted to buy a squash racquet that cost $75.
He has saved $60.
How much extra does he need to save as a percentage of the cost price? (2 marks)
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A candy box contains 6 white chocolate bars and 11 dark chocolate bars.
About what percentage of the candy in the box are white chocolate bars? Give your answer to the nearest whole percentage. (2 marks)
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There were only 17 students in Grace's class on Wednesday. The other 8 were absent.
What percentage of Grace's class was absent?
- 8%
- 25%
- 32%
- 33%
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In a water polo season, Vladimir had 330 shots at goal.
He scored 170 goals but missed the rest.
Vladimir's success rate of scoring goals was?
- less than 25%
- more than 25% but less than 50%
- more than 50% but less than 75%
- more than 75%
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Ricky wants to buy a cricket bat that has a normal price of $160.
He is given a 15% discount.
What is the value of the discount? (2 marks)
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Hoon's camera has a memory card that holds 20 gigabytes.
He has used exactly 16 gigabytes of memory.
What percentage of the memory has not been used?
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Zoey scored 88% on her Geography exam.
If she achieved the same mark on her French exam, which of these could have been her mark?
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Santana is buying a guitar string.
Some of the strings are on sale.
Select the string that will be cheapest.
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A local soccer club has 1600 fans.
At a game, one-quarter of the fans wear a yellow jersey and the rest wear red.
25% of the red jerseys have a black stripe down the back.
How many red jerseys have a black stripe? (2 marks)
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Marty and Paul swam 3 kilometres in an ocean swimming race.
Marty finished in a time of 1 hour and 10 minutes.
Paul took 25% longer than Marty.
How long did Paul take to finish the race? (2 marks)