WORKSHEET – PERCENTAGES

I) Write as Percentages:
21 86 19 13 11 13 6 7 9 17 27
1. (a) (b) (c) (d) (e) (f) (g) (h) (i) (j) (k)
100 100 50 40 20 25 15 10 10 20 30
1 2 1 1 7
2. (a) 6 4 (b) 1 5 (c) 4 2 (d) 3 5 (e) 5 10 (f) 0.6 (g) 0.27 (h) 8.9 (i) 0.70 (j) 0.09 (k) 2.1

3. (a) 0.89 (b) 0.04 (c) 0.020 (d) 0.014 (e) 0.483 (f) 2.76 (g) 0.1 (h) 3.012 (i) 0.005

II) Change the following Percentages into Fractions in the lowest terms:
4 5 4 5 1 2
1. (a) 8% (b) 25% (c) 60% (d) % (e) % (f) 8 5 % (g) 10 8 % (h) 7 7 % (i) 16 3 %
5 8

(j) 82% (k) 10.4% (l) 3.25% (m) 7.5% (n) 11.2%

III) Change the following Percentages into Decimals:

1. (a) 21% (b) 85% (c) 5.4% (d) 63.2% (e) 100% (f) 7% (g) 5% (h) 36%

(i) 10.8% (j) 2,5% (k) 105% (l) 6.25%

IV) Write each of the following as a %:

1. of a rupee: (a) 2 paise (b) 48 paise (c) 100 paise (d) 5 paise (e) 32 paise (f) 9 paise (g) 112 paise

2. of a metre: (a) 3 cm (b) 18 cm (c) 63 cm (d) 8 cm (e) 24 cm (f) 4 cm (g) 109 cm

3. of a kilogram: (a) 5g (b) 38g (c) 120g (d) 108g (e) 36 g (f) 400g (g) 29 g

4. of a kilometer: (a) 20m (b) 450m (c) 6m (d) 75m (e) 8 m (f) 40 m (g) 160 m

5. of a litre: (a) 17 ml (b) 303 ml (c) 7 ml (d) 200ml (e) 750 ml (f) 80 ml (g) 10 ml

6. of a gram: (a) 46 mg (b) 100 mg (c) 50 mg (d) 235 mg (e) 660 mg (f) 1 mg (g) 5 mg

V) What Percent is:

(a) 50 ml of 5 l (b) 48 p of ₹ 2 (c) 72 cm of 4 m (d) 40 minutes of 2 hours (e) 12 of 60 (f) 7.5 of 30

1 1 1
(g) 2 4 of 45 (h) 500 g of 4 kg (i) 40 of 50 (j) 29.6 of 40 (k) 3 3 of 20 (l) 4.5 of 15 (m) 7 7 of 50

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(n) 3 5 of 80 (o) 200m of 4 km (p) 175g of 2.5 kg (q) 25 of 500 (r) 30 p of ₹ 600 (s) 35 of 700

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(t) 45 kg of 1500 kg (u) 75 of 1250 (v) 5 5 of 17 (w) 4.8 of 12 (x)150 cm of 5 m (y) 400 ml of 5l
VI) Find the value of: (a) 11% of 25 (b) 15% of 600 (c) 30% of 60 (d) 5% of 140 (e) 25% of 480

(f) 125% of 100 (g) 19% of 1000 (h) 65% of 2400 (i) 40% of 1500 (j) 28% of 12000

(k) 12 12 % of ₹ 4800 (l) 4 25 % of ₹ 1250 (m) 3 34 % of ₹ 3600 1

(n) 12 2 % of ₹ 864.80
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(o) 7 7 % of ₹ 42.42

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(p) 3.6% of 225m (q) 16 2 % of 400g (r) 28% of 1500 km (s) 1.5% of ₹ 600 (t) % of ₹ 2500
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(u) 2.4% of ₹ 120 (v) 7.5% of 240g (w) 4.4 % of 800 m (y) 5.5 % of 200 ml

VII) Word Problems:

1) Ravi got 150 out of 200 in the talent test. Express his marks in percentage.

2) Our school worked 105 days in the first term. Murali was absent for 21 days. Fin his attendance percentage for
the first term.

3) Sanjay gets a monthly salary of ₹ 7500. He pays 25% of it as rent. What is the monthly rent he pays?

4) 32% of the pupils are girls. If the strength of the school is 725, find the number of girls and the number of boys.

5) Kapil spends 72% of his income and saves the rest, every month. Find the percentage of the income he saves.

6) The strength of Class V is 360. 65% of them attended Saturday Classes arranged by the school. How many
pupils did not attend the classes?

7) A carton has 240 flags. Out of which 96 are red flags, 72 blue flags, 48 green flags and the rest are yellow flags.
Find the % of red flags, blue flags, green flags and the yellow flags in the carton.

8) Ankit scored 80% of marks out of a total of 500 marks. How many marks did he score?

9) Ritesh spends 78% of his income as family monthly expenditure and the rest he saves. If he earns ₹25000, find
the amount (a) he spends (b) he saves.

10) Out of 25 working days in a month, Anil was absent for 3 days. What was his percentage of attendance for the
month?

11) There were 24 cheese balls in a plate. Atty Fatty ate 18 out of them. What % of the cheese balls did he eat?

12) There are 800 trees in an orchard. 75% of them are mango trees and the rest are guava trees. Find the number of
guava trees.

13) There are 150 fruits in a basket. Out of which 45 are apples, 75 are oranges and the rest are bananas. What
percentage of the fruits are apples, oranges and bananas?

14) Mr Sharma owned property worth ₹ 90,000. He kept 55% of it for himself, 20% of it he gave to his wife, 15%
of it to his son and the remaining to the charity. What amount (a) he kept for himself (b) he gave to his wife (c) he
gave to his son (d) he kept for charity.
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15) Arjun’s examination marks were: Math ; Eng ; Lang I ; and Computers 15. Change the results to
25 25 20
percentages and arrange them in the ascending order.

16) Neeraj got 76% in a History test. How many marks out of 25 is this? How many marks out of 25 did he get in
Science if his percentage of marks was 84?

17) Mohit earns ₹ 10,800 per month. He spends 45% of his income on food, 20% on transport, 5% for paying
electricity bill and the rest he saves. Find the amount (a) spend on food (b) spend on transport (c) spend for paying
electricity bill and (d) amount he saves.

18) Seema scored 752 out of 800 and Reema scored 672 out of 700. Find their % of marks and say who scored
better?

19) For the school play Class V pupils sold 384 tickets out of 400 tickets and Class VI pupils sold 558 tickets out of
600. In which class sale percentage was higher?

20) A fruit seller purchased 220 bananas to sell. He found that 5% of them were rotten. How many bananas were
(a) rotten (b) good?

21) Sanjay obtained 783 marks out of 900 and Karan obtained 528 marks out of 600. Whose performance was
better?

22) A oil can contains 16 l of oil. Due to leakage 2 l of oil was lost. What % of oil was (a) lost and (b) left?

23) Mr Khanna’s monthly salary is ₹ 12000. He spends 85% of his income and the rest he saves. Find the amount
he spends and the amount he saves.

24) On a rainy day, 35% of a class of 40 students was absent. Find the number of students (a) absent (b) present.

25) 56% of the cartridge was used to print a set of worksheets. Find the % of cartridge left unused.

APPLICATIONS:
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1) The vegetable stew consists of water. (a) What % is this?
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(b) How much water will be added to 75 kg of vegetables?

2) During winter vacation children spend 65% of the vacation in the outdoor activities.
(a) What fraction is this?
(b) What % of the vacation spend indoors?
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3) In HPS Begumpet, 75 4
% of the food is consumed. What % of the food was left?

4) For morning snack, the cook used 30% of the oil.

(a) If he was given 15 l of oil, how much oil did he use for the snack?
(b) How much oil was left for the rest of the day?

5) When a baker bakes a cake, its volume increases by about 25%. If 800g of batter is baked, then
(a) How much does the volume increase?
(b) What is the volume of the cake?