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Maths Grade 8 Worksheet Practice

This document contains 30 math word problems involving percentages, decimals, fractions, ratios, and geometry. Students are asked to convert between percentages and decimals, calculate percentages of quantities, solve discount and tax word problems, interpret data in tables and graphs, and simplify ratios. They must use critical thinking skills and percentage formulas to solve each multi-step problem.

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Maths Grade 8 Worksheet Practice

This document contains 30 math word problems involving percentages, decimals, fractions, ratios, and geometry. Students are asked to convert between percentages and decimals, calculate percentages of quantities, solve discount and tax word problems, interpret data in tables and graphs, and simplify ratios. They must use critical thinking skills and percentage formulas to solve each multi-step problem.

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Answer all questions.

1. Convert the following percentages into decimals:

a) 50%

b) 75%

c) 20%

d) 12.5%

2. Convert the following decimals into percentages:

a) 0.5

b) 0.8

c) 0.15

d) 0.025

3. Calculate the following:

a) 25% of 80m

b) 50% of 240kg

c) 75% of $120

d) 20% of 150cm
4. A pair of shoes originally cost $80. If they are discounted by 25%, what is the sale price?

5. The price of a computer is $800, including a tax of 20%. What is the original price of the
computer before tax?

6. A shirt is on sale for 15% off its original price of $35. What is the sale price?

7. The population of a town is 50,000. If the population increases by 10%, what is the new
population of the town?
8. The price of a book is increased from $20 to $25. What is the percentage increase in price?

9. Express the following percentages as fractions in simplest form:

a) 25%

b) 50%

c) 10%

d) 5%

10. Express the following fractions as percentages:

a) 2/5

b) 3/4

c) 1/6

d) 5/8

11. A store is offering a discount of 15% on a toy car that costs $20. What is the sale price of the
toy car expressed as a fraction of its original price?
12. If 20% = 1/5, what fraction is 40%?

13. If 16.67% = 1/6, what fraction is 33.33%?

14. If 12.5% = 1/8, what fraction is 37.5%?

15. The label on a new bag of flour states ‘Contents 500 grams’. A cake recipe uses 150g of flour.

a. What fraction of a new bag is used?

b. What percentage is that?

c. What percentage is left?

16. 10 people out of a group of 39 watched a movie. Which of these is closest to the percentage
that watched the movie? Give a reason for your answer.

5% 15% 25% 35% 45% 55%


17. Find the missing numbers.

a. 25% of 80m = ⃝ % of 40m

b. 60% of $25 = ⃝ % of $50

18. In a school, the number of students in Grade 6 is 200 and the number of students in Grade 7 is
250. What percentage of the total number of students in the school are in Grade 7?

19. The cost of a book is $25. If a bookseller wants to make a profit of 20% on the cost price, what
should be the selling price of the book?

20. In a survey, 60% of the people prefer coffee and 40% prefer tea. If there were 500 people in
the survey, how many people preferred coffee?
21. The price of a TV is increased by 20%. If the original price of the TV was $500, what is the new
price of the TV?

22. In class A, 17 out of 25 students were absent at least one day this year. In class B the figure was
14 out of 20. In class C it was 18 out of 24.

a. Work out the percentages who were absent in each class?

b. Which class had the worst record of absence?

23. Mujib has $40 and Prakash has $120. Each of them spends $24. Work out the percentage of their
money that each of them has spent.
24.

A 400g pack of couscous contains 116g of carbohydrate,

A 250 g bag of maize flour contains 195g of carbohydrate,

A 1kg bag of wheat flour contains 640g of carbohydrate.

Use percentages to work out the amount of carbohydrate in each.

25. In a baby clinic, the nurse weighed 20 baby boys and 30 baby girls. Their weights were
recorded as ‘underweight’, ‘normal’ or ‘overweight’. The results are in the table below.

Underweight Normal Overweight


Boys 5 6 9
Girls 6 12 12

a. What percentage of the boys were:

I. Underweight

II. Normal

III. Overweight
b. What percentage of the girls were:

I. Underweight

II. Normal

III. Overweight

c. Are these statements TRUE or FALSE?

I. More boys than girls were overweight.

II. A greater percentage of boys were overweight.

III. More girls than boys were underweight.

IV. A greater percentage of girls than boys were underweight.

26. Imran Khan and Nawaz Sharif were two candidates in an election. Here are the votes they

received in two areas.

Area 1 Area 2
Imran Khan 165 106
Nawaz Sharif 135 94

a. Work out the percentage of votes each candidate received in each area.
b. Did Imran Khan do better in Area 1 or Area 2?

c. What percentage of votes did Imran Khan received overall. (Hint: Overall means you
have to calculate the percentage of votes Imran khan got out of all the votes to Imran and
Nawaz in both areas)

27. Shade 60% of the diagram below.

28. What percentage of the unshaded part is of the whole shape?


29.

a. Simplify the ratio 12:16 to its simplest form.

b. Simplify the ratio 27:63 to its simplest form.

c. Simplify the ratio 20:25 to its simplest form.

d. Simplify the ratio 36:48 to its simplest form.

30. The rectangle below is made up of blue (LABELLED: ‘B’) and green ((LABELLED: ‘G’) squares.

B G G G B B G G G B
B G G G B B G G G B

a. Write down the ration of blue squares to green squares.

b. Write the ratio in its simplest form.

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