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Subject: Mathematics Worksheet

Instructions: Complete the exercise showing working where necessary.

No. Item Space for working


1. Calculate 12.5 % of 96

2. What percent of 50 is 15?

3. Express
2
as a percentage
5

If 80% of a herd of cattle are


4. females, how many cattle are
males in that herd?

A discount of 20% was given for


each cash purchase at a sports
5. store. How much will Darren pay
for a pair of cricket boots marked
at $800.?
6. There are 8 green, 11 yellow and 6
blue marbles in a box. What
percentage of the marbles are
green?

7.
A discount of 50% is given on a
television. If the price of the
television after the discount was
$1500., what was the original price
of the television?

8.
A coat costing $220. Was reduced
by 15%. How much was the saving?

9.
An appliance store has a clearance
sale on all items. A customer
purchases a refrigerator and a
microwave oven. A discount of 20%
is given on the refrigerator and a
discount of 10% on the microwave.

(a) What is the discounted


price on the refrigerator
marked at $8000.?
Ans:
(b) What is the discount on
the microwave priced at
$1200.? Ans:

(c) How much VAT


calculated at 15% would
the customer pay if he
purchases both items?

Calculate the amount that has to


10. be repaid if a customer borrowed

$5000. For 3 ½ years at 10%


per annum.

62.5 % of Jameel’s money is $205.


If he spent $169., calculate how
much money he has left.
11.

Rick had some limes. He gave 25%


to Roberta and sold Tonia 2/9 of
the remainder. He remained with
12. 280 limes. Calculate:

(a) How many limes did Rick


have at first? Ans:

(b) Tonia gave 0.375 of her


limes to her mother, How
many limes did Tonia
keep for herself?

(c) Calculate the percentage


of limes Rick gave away
and sold, rounded off to
the nearest percentage.
Ans:
13. Tim bought a new bicycle for
$800. And later sold it to Kerry
for $650. Kerry then sold it to
make a profit of 10%. Calculate
the difference in price between
the new bicycle and the price at
which Kerry sold it.
Ans:

14. A vendor bought 5 bags of


oranges, each containing 180
oranges. He found that 10% of
them were not good.
15.
(a) How many good oranges
did the vendor have?

Ans:

(b) If he packed them in


bags of 10, how many
bags did he get? Ans:
(c) If each bag was sold for
$15.00, how much money
would he collect if 6 bags
were unsold? Ans:

The pictograph shows the first


choice schools for girls in class 4.

Holy Faith Convent

Couva East
Secondary

St. Augustine Girls

For this sum see the attached


picture.

(a) How many girls are in


class 4? Ans

(b) What percentage of the


girls chose St. Augustine
Girls? Ans
(c) What decimal fraction of
all the girls chose Holy
Faith Convent?

Ans:

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