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.
| 40 kg Dry Dog Food Prices | ||
| Shop | Original price | Discount |
| A. | ||
| B. | ||
| C. | ||
| D. | ||
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.
 |
 |
 |
 |
| A. | B. | C. | D. |
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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)
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Jake bought a mobile phone at 25% off the original price.
The original price was $380.
How much did Jake pay for the mobile phone? (2 marks)
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A hockey stick is on sale, reduced from $220 to $165.
What percentage discount has been applied? (2 marks)
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Richard bought a second hand snowboard at a cost of $390.
Richard had to spend 65% of his savings to buy the snowboard.
How much did Richard have in his savings after buying the snowboard? (2 marks)
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Harrison was saving his money to buy a cricket bat.
After 1 month, he had saved 45% of the bat's cost.
After 2 months, he had saved another $90 and now had 75% of the bat's cost.
How much does the bat cost? (2 marks)
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Michael purchases a 3D printer worth $2 490 000.
He was given a 10% discount.
What was the price paid by Michael after the discount? (2 marks)
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A box of golf balls normally cost $19.50.
During a sale, the golf shop took 10% off the regular price of the balls.
What is the new sale price of the golf balls? (2 marks)
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Don buys a cricket ball, originally marked $30, that is discounted by 25%.
He also has a loyalty card that gives him another 20% off the sale price.
What is the final cost of the ball? (2 marks)
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Walker is doing an intensive swim program over the summer holidays.
In his first session, he swims 50 laps.
In his second session, he swims 30% more laps than his first session.
In his third session, he swims 20% more laps than his second session.
How many laps does he swim at his third practice? (2 marks)
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A sport store has a sale.
What is the difference in the sale prices of these two tents? (2 marks)
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Mary has 60 books and splits them into four categories.
This table shows the percentage of each category.
| Book Category | Percentage |
| Textbooks | 35% |
| Sport | 30% |
| Fiction | 20% |
| Travel | 15% |
How many sport books does Mary have? (2 marks)
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A scholarship fund of $1 000 000 is allocated between three scholarships as shown in the table below.
| Percentage of $1 million | |
| Academic Scholarship | 40% |
| Sport Scholarship | 30% |
| Hardship Scholarship | 30% |
150 students were given a Hardship Scholarship.
How much did each Hardship Scholarship winner receive? (2 marks)
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Albert has 50 marbles in his bag.
He records the colour of each marble in the table below.
| Marble | Number of Marbles |
| Blue | 20 |
| Red | 12 |
| Orange | 4 |
| White | ? |
| TOTAL | 50 |
What percentage of the marbles are white? (2 marks)
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The table below lists the original price and the amount of discount of a pair of jeans at four different shops.
| JEANS SALE | ||
| Shop | Original price | Discount |
| A. | ||
| B. | ||
| C. | ||
| D. | ||
Which shop has the lowest sale price for the jeans?
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Which percentage has the same value as
- 64%
- 62%
- 32%
- 16%
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A class of 28 students is surveyed. 21 students said they owned a mobile phone.
What percentage of the students surveyed owned a mobile phone? (2 marks)
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Gary is painting his house over 3 days.
-
- He paints
of the house on the first day. - He paints
of the house on the second day.
- He paints
In order to finish, what percentage of the house does Gary need to paint on the third day? (2 marks)
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Find:
- 2% of $14.50. (2 mark)
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- 15% of 300 kg. (2 marks)
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of 880 km. (2 marks)
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Find:
- 10% of $325. (1 mark)
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- 30% of 1200 kg. (2 marks)
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- 75% of 500 km. (2 marks)
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Brittany is an apprentice hair dresser who works 8 hours per day.
Yesterday she spent her time in the following way.
-
- 0.42 of her day
sweeping and tidying the salon - 0.18 of her day
washing hair - 0.05 of her day
drying hair
- 0.42 of her day
The rest of Brittany's day was spent restocking the shelves with new products.
What percentage of Brittany's day was spent restocking shelves? (2 marks)
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The breakdown of Joanna's weekly spending is shown in the sector graph below.
What percentage of Joanna's weekly spending was on entertainment? (2 marks)
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Convert the following decimals to percentages.
- 0.83 (1 mark)
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- 0.7 (1 mark)
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- 0.03 (1 mark)
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- 1.45 (1 marks)
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Convert the following percentages to fractions in simplest form.
- 89% (1 mark)
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- 55% (1 mark)
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- 164% (2 mark)
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- 385% (2 marks)
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Convert the following fractions to percentages.
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