GCSE · Percentages & growth
Percentage change and multipliersExam-style questions
Why every percentage increase or decrease is a single multiplication, how to build the multiplier, and why "percentage change" is always measured against the original amount.
19 questions · GCSE (Higher) level · mark scheme and worked solution on each · no sign-up to try
- 1Last summer, a town council put up hanging baskets.
The council expects to put up more hanging baskets this summer.
Each hanging basket holds plants.
The plants are sold in trays of
(a) Using this estimate, work out the number of trays of plants the council needs to buy.
(4 marks)
This summer, the council actually put up more hanging baskets than last summer.
(b) How does this affect your answer to part (a)?
(1 mark)Level 3 · 5 marksTry it - 2Grace buys boxes of greetings cards.
There are cards in each box.
She pays £14.40 for each box.
Grace sells all the cards for p each.
Work out Grace's percentage profit.
(3 marks)Level 3 · 3 marksTry it - 3The price of a computer game is £24. A shop increases the price by 25%. The game does not sell, so the shop then reduces the new price by 25%.
(a) Work out the final price of the game.
(b) Work out the overall percentage change from the original £24.Level 3 · 5 marksTry it - 4A company's annual profit rose from £1.8 million to £2.07 million. Work out the percentage increase in profit.Level 3 · 3 marksTry it
- 5The number of members of a running club rose from to .
Work out the percentage increase.Level 3 · 2 marksTry it
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