SPOT Valley HIGH SCHOOL

GRADE 7
FEBRUARY 2015
TUTORIAL SHEET

PERCENTAGE MATHEMATICS
1. Express the following fractions
as percentages.

a.
b.
c.
d.
e.
f.
g.
h.
i.
j.
k.
l.

/2
1
/4
1
/3
1
1
/25
2
/15
9
/35
17
/20
1
/6
10
/4
18
/10
41
/50
1

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b.

38% _______

c.

9%

d.

88% _______

e.

16 %

_______

f.

7 %

_______

g.

_______

h.

5%

_______

i.

j.

42% _______

k.

2 %

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/3% _______
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3. Express the following

percentages as decimals:
a.

74% _______

c.

154% _______

d.

40

e.

29% _______

f.

125% _______

g.

4%

h.

i.

321% _______

j.

85 3/8 %

/3%

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/5%

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as percentages:

lowest terms.
60% _______

62 %

4. Express the following decimals

2. Express as fractions in their

a.

b.

5.

a.
b.
c.
d.
e.
f.
g.
h.
i.
j.
k.
l.
m.
n.
o.
p.

0.5 _______
0.22 _______
0.83 _______
1.72 _______
0.625 _______
0.9 _______
0.04 _______
0.55 _______
2.64 _______
0.845 _______
0.25 _______
0.74 _______
1.25 _______
3.41 _______
0.075 _______
0.36 _______

q.

0.16 _______

r.

1.39 _______

Express
_______

17

/15 as a percentage.

males, how many children

attended?
_______

6.

Copy and complete the

following table:
Fraction

3
/5

Percent

Deci

age
50%

mal
0.5

11.

What fraction of 1 minute is

15 seconds? ______

12.

What fraction of 6 weeks is 6

days?
_______

13.

In a box of 200 oranges, 18

are bad.
What percentage is bad?

45%

_______

0.35
1

What percentage is good?

/8
0.65

_______

0.94
5

/8
70%
0.85

7.

On a particular day, of the

600 workers in a factory 3
% were absent due to illness.
How many of the employees
were ill?
_______

14.

Find the value of:a.

40% of 120

_______
b.

12% of 800g

_______
c.

74% of 75 cm

_______
8.

9.

A football team won 67% of

their matches and drew 24%
of them. What percentage of
the matches did they lose?
_______
A mathematics book has 360
pages, of which 50% are on
Algebra, 20% on Geometry
and the remainder on
Arithmetic. How many pages
of Arithmetic are there in the
book? _______

d.

_______
e.

A concert is attended by
2500 people. If 47% are adult
females and 32% are adult

15% of $10

_______
f.

7 % of 80g

_______
g.

37 % of 48cm

_______
h.

6% of 24m

_______
i.

10.

8% of $2

45% of 740

_______

j.

16 2/3% of $60

_______
k.

20.

If 48% of the pupils in a

school are girls, what
percentage are boys?

21.

There are 450 children in a

primary school, 12% of whom
do not speak English at
home. Find the number of
children for whom English is
not their home language.

22.

There are 120 shops in the

High Street, 35% of which
sell food. How many High
Street shops do not sell food?

23.

In my class there are 30

students and 40% of them
have a bicycle. How many
pupils:a. have a bicycle?
_______
b. do not have a bicycle?
_______

24.

What percentage of 24 is 18?

25.

Darien received the following

marks in an examination.
Answer the questions that
follow:MARKS
Subject Poss Sco
%
s
ible
red
Mathem
150 120
atics
English
80
44
Science
120
90
Geograp
90
45
hy
Spanish
60
51
Reading
125 120

15% of 100 soldiers

_______
l.

60% of 40 flying fish

_______
m.

100% of %64

_______
n.

75% of $32

_______
15.

There are 60 boys in the third

year, 24 of whom study
chemistry. What percentage
of the third year boys study
chemistry?

16.

In a history test, Pauline

scored 28 out of a possible
40. What was her percentage
mark?

17.

Forty-two of the 60 students

in Grade seven wear eyeglasses. What percentage do
not?

18.

19.

A secretary takes 56 letters

to the post office for posting;
14 are registered and the
remainder are ordinary mail.
What percentage go by
ordinary mail?
In a garage, 16 of the 30 cars
which are for sale are second
hand.
a. What percentage of the
cars are new?
b. What percentage are
second hand?

a. What percentage did

he get for each
subject?
_______
b. Which subject earned
him the most marks?
_______
c. Which subject earned
him the least marks?
_______
26.

Last year Jamaica received

472,000 tourists. 29% of
these came from UK, 26%
from USA and 12% from
Canada.
How many tourists
a. came from Canada
_______
b. came from UK
_______
c. came from a country other
than the three countries
named above?
_______

27.

Express 50% as a fraction

_______
If 50% of a number is 30,
what is the number?

28.

Express 20% as a fraction

_______
If 20% of a number is 13, find
the number ____