Grade 10 - More Exercises

Percentages

1. Write the following percentages as fractions in their simplest form:
1.1
30%      1.2    45%      1.3    82%      1.4    3%      1.5    14%      1.6    230     
       
2. Write the following decimal fractions as percentages:
2.1
0,2      2.2    0,35      2.3    0,85      2.4    0,345      2.5    0,075      2.6    3,06     
       
3. Calculate
3.1 36% of 3,26 m                                                        3.2     45% of 215 marks
3.3 14% of R288,34                                                      3.4    75% of 320 450 liters
3.5 11% of R805 912                                                    3.6     8% of 320 people
       
4. Write the first number as a percentage of the second number:
4.1 18 ; 50                 4.2   314 ; 862                 4.3    0,026 ; 1,197                  4.4    21,47 ; 78,04
     
5. Peter scored the following marks in tests and tasks:
   Subject               Mathematical Literacy       English       History        Accounting
   Mark                              26                                42                 21                18
   Maximum                      40                                60                 70                45
     
5.1 Convert each mark to a percentage.
5.2 What was his highest mark?
5.3 Did he fail any subject, if he has to obtain 40% to pass? Write down the name(s) and
   percentage(s) of the failed subject(s).
     
6. An agent receives a commission on his sales. Calculate the value of the letters in the table:
  
  number                    6.1              6.2                6.3               6.4               6.5       
  
  Amount                  450              320                  c             450 650       965 720    
  
  % commission         12                  b                42                 3,5                e        
  
  commission               a               89,60             5061             d            73 394,72  
     
7. The numbers in the table concern the percentage change that the "old" number undergoes
   to form the "new" number. Calculate the value of each letter.
  
   Number    7.1         7.2       7.3         7.4       7.5   
  
"Old" number    48        186         c       21,45      67  
  
"New" number    62           b       286        d        54  
  
% change     a       145,16      16,73       30,72       e    
     
  
   Number     7.6         7.7         7.8         7.9         7.10   
  
"Old" number    245          g        67,85     987,056      87,61  
  
"New" number      f       1198       66,04         m        77,94  
  
% change   -2,86      -0,58         h         1,21        n    
     
     
  
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