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The document contains 6 multiple choice and word problems about percentages and probability. The problems involve calculating percentage increases and decreases, finding probabilities, and interpreting data from tables and charts about topics like birth rates, employment, and time usage.

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Percent

The document contains 6 multiple choice and word problems about percentages and probability. The problems involve calculating percentage increases and decreases, finding probabilities, and interpreting data from tables and charts about topics like birth rates, employment, and time usage.

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Name ______________________________________________ Percentage

1.

Probability
(a)

A bag has 20 cubes in it. 6 of the cubes are green.


You take one cube out of the bag at random.
Which values below show the probability that you take out a cube that is green?
Circle the correct four values.

6
14

30%

0.6

3/10

6%

3/5

6/20

0.03

0.3

6/10

60%

6
26

2 marks
(b)

A box has 20 counters in it. 11 of the counters are red.


You take one counter out of the box at random.
What is the probability that the counter you take out is not red?
Write your answer as a fraction.

1 mark
Now write your answer as a percentage.

1 mark
Total 4 marks

2.

Percentage change
(a)

One calculation below gives the answer to the question


What is 70 increased by 9%?
Tick ( ) the correct one.
7 0 0 .9

7 0 1 .9

7 0 0 .0 9

7 0 1 .0 9

1 mark

Choose one of the other calculations.


Write a question about percentages that this calculation represents.
calculation chosen: .......................
question it represents: ..................................................................
1 mark
Now do the same for one of the remaining two calculations.
calculation chosen: .......................
question it represents: ..................................................................
1 mark
(b)

Fill in the missing decimal number.


To decrease by 14%, multiply by ..................
1 mark

3.

On a farm 80 sheep gave birth.


30% of the sheep gave birth to two lambs.
The rest of the sheep gave birth to just one lamb.
In total, how many lambs were born?
Show your working.

lambs

2 marks

4.

Hedging
A garden centre sells plants for hedges.
The table shows what they sold in one week.

(a)

Plants

Number of
plants sold

Takings

Beech

125

212.50

Leylandii

650

2437.50

Privet

35

45.50

Hawthorn

18

23.40

Laurel

32.25

Total

833

2751.15

What percentage of the total number of plants sold was Leylandii?


Show your working.

%
2 marks
(b)

What percentage of the total takings was for Leylandii?


Show your working.

%
2 marks
(c)

Which is the cheaper plant, Beech or Privet?


Show working to explain how you know.

1 mark
Total 5 marks

5.

Births
Look at the table:
1961

(a)

E n g la n d

1 7 .6

W a le s

1 7 .0

1994

1 2 .2

In England, from 1961 to 1994, the birth rate fell by 26.1%.


What was the birth rate in England in 1994?
Show your working.

2 marks
(b)

In Wales, the birth rate also fell.


Calculate the percentage fall from 1961 to 1994.
Show your working.

%
2 marks

6.The pie chart shows how much time each day, on average, we spend doing different things.
"How Britons use their time (1995 data)"
L e is u r e & e a t in g
28%
S le e p & r e s t
37%

D o m e s t ic
19%

O th e r
1%

P a id w o r k
12%

V o lu n ta ry
w o rk
1%

Labour
s e r v ic e s
3%

Data from 'Economic Trends', Office for National Statistics, Crown Copyright 1998
(a)

The sum of the percentages is not 100%.


Does this mean there must be a mistake in the pie chart? Explain your answer.

1mark

(b)Calculate how much time in one day (24 hours) we spend on average on paid work.
Show your working and give your answer in hours and minutes.

............... hours ................ minutes


2 marks
Total 3 marks

7.

A clothes shop had a closing down sale.


The sale started on Tuesday and finished on Saturday.
For each day of the sale, prices were reduced by 15% of the prices on the day before.
(a)

A shirt had a price of 19.95 on Monday. Kevin bought it on Wednesday.


How much did he pay?

Show your working.

..............................
2 marks

(b) Ghita bought a dress on Tuesday for 41.48


What was its price on Monday?

Show your working.

...............................
2 marks

(c) A jacket had a price of 49.95 on Monday. What was its price on Friday? Show your working.

...............................
(d)

2 marks
Another shop is reducing its prices each day by 12% of the prices on the day before.
How many days would it take for its original prices to be reduced by more than 50%?
Show your working.

............................... days
2 marks

8. In 1995, the Alpha Company employed 4000 people.

For each of the next 2 years, the number of people employed increased by 10%.
1995

employed 4000 people

1996

employed 10% more people

1997

employed 10% more people

(a) Tony said: "Each year, the Alpha company employed another 400 people."
Tony was wrong. Explain why.

1 mark
(b) Circle the calculation below which shows how many people worked for the company in 1997.
4000 0.1 2

4000 0.1

(4000 0.1) 2

4000 1.1 2

4000 1.1

(4000 1.1)2
1 mark

(c)

Look at these figures for the Beta Company:


1995
1996

employed n people
employed 20% fewer people

1997

employed 10% more people

Write an expression using n to show how many people the company employed in 1997.
Show your working and write your expression as simply as possible.

2 marks
Total 4 marks

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