Percentage Conversion
0.5 as a percentage
50%
9/10
Calculate 60% of 420
252
John bought a bike for $120 and sold it for $230. Is this a profit or a loss?
Profit
Find the discounted price if a board game priced at $25 is discounted by 30%.
$17.50
3/4 as a percentage
75%
If a t-shirt cost $67 and was discounted by 25% what is the new price?
$50.25
Increase 80 by 50%
Sarah purchased a nee-doh for $12 and sold it for $20. How much profit did she make?
$8
A book priced at $90 is marked up by 40%
$126
4.37 as a percentage
437%
If the price of a block of chocolate decreased from $4 to $3.40 what is the % decrease?
15%
A bag of rice weighs 120kg. The company who makes these bags decides to increase their weight by 45%. Find the new weight of the bag.
174kg
Alex bought a stove for $129. She eventually sold the stove and made a profit of $29. What price did she sell it for?
$158
A t-shirt originally priced at $170 is marked up to sell for 45% more. What is the marked-up price?
$246.50
960% as a simplified fraction
24/25
Boston purchased a pair of boardshorts for $60 and then resold them for $95. What % profit did he make?
58.3%
A percentage increase was applied to the number 60 in order to get 108
80%
Oliver bought a baseball bat for $130 and sold it for $143.
a) Calculate Oliver's profit.
b) Find the percentage profit of the cost price of the baseball bat.
a) $13
b) 10%
Find the original price if the price of a basketball was marked up by 60% and is now $144
$90
87/150 as a percentage
58%
Blake purchased a computer game for $66 he then sold it after a year for $45. What percentage loss did he make?
31.8%
The length of a rope is 120metres. The length is increased by 15% and then the result is decreased by 15%. What is the new length of the rope, rounded to the nearest metre?
117.3
In its opening month, a local pizza store sold 190 large pizzas at $20 each and 200 small pizzas at $6 each. The store incurred electricity costs of $36, rent of $408, wages of $1345 and ingredient costs of $210.
Calculate whether they made a profit or a loss in their first month
A profit of $3,001
A popular hotel increased its nightly rates from $277 to $349.
a) Calculate how much more a single night's stay costs after the price increase.
b) By what percentage did the nightly rate increase? Round your answer to two decimal places.
a) $72
b) 26%