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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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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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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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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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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Express $18 as a percentage of $600.
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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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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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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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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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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)