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Grade 6 Math — Percentages

Find a percentage of an amount, and change between fractions and percentages.

Name: ________________________

Before you start

This line is the whole of something, split into a hundred. Move along it and read the percentages off.

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50 sits exactly halfway, 25 is halfway again, and 10 is a tenth of the way along. Those three are worth knowing by sight, because nearly every other percentage is built out of them.

  1. 1.What is 3/4 written as a percentage?

    • a) 75%
    • b) 34%
    • c) 43%
    • d) 25%

  2. 2.A shopkeeper buys a bag for $400 and sells it for $500. What is the profit as a percentage of the cost? Give just the number.

  3. 3.Put these amounts in order, smallest first.

    • 30%
    • 1/5
    • 0.4
    • 1/2
    • 60%

  4. 4.What is 50% of 96?

  5. 5.What is 10% of 250?

  6. 6.What is 20% of 45?

  7. 7.Match each percentage to the same amount written as a fraction.

    • 50%
    • 25%
    • 20%
    • 75%
    • 10%
    • 1/4
    • 1/10
    • 3/4
    • 1/2
    • 1/5

  8. 8.A book costs $200. The price goes up by 10%. What is the new price? Give just the number.

Answer key — Grade 6 Math — Percentages

  1. 1. a) 75%
  2. 2. 25
  3. 3. 1. 1/5 2. 30% 3. 0.4 4. 1/2 5. 60%
  4. 4. 48
  5. 5. 25
  6. 6. 9
  7. 7. 50% → 1/2; 25% → 1/4; 20% → 1/5; 75% → 3/4; 10% → 1/10
  8. 8. 220