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    2.6 Expressing One Quantity As A Percentage of Another: Homework

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    The document contains examples of expressing quantities as percentages and calculating percentage increases. It provides word problems involving percentages of quantities like parts of wholes, profit margins, and score increases on tests.

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    6 Expressing one quantity as a percentage of another


    Homework
    1 Express each of the following as a percentage. Give your answers to one decimal place where
    necessary.
    a $8 of $40 b 20 kg of 80 kg c 5 m of 50 m
    d $15 of $20 e 400 g of 500 g f 23 cm of 50 cm
    g $12 of $36 h 18 minutes of 1 hour i $27 of $40
    j 5 days of 3 weeks
    2 In a class of 30 pupils, 18 are girls.
    a What percentage of the class are girls?
    b What percentage of the class are boys?
    3 The area of a farm is 820 hectares. The farmer uses 240 hectares for pasture.
    What percentage of the farm land is used for pasture? Give your answer to one decimal place.
    4 Here are some retail and wholesale prices:
    Item Retail price Wholesale price
    (Selling price) (Price the shop paid)
    a Micro hi-fi System $250 $150
    b Camera $90 $60
    c MP3 player $44.99 $30
    d Cordless headphones $29.99 $18
    A shopkeeper wants to make over 40% profit on each item. Does he succeed at these prices?
    5 Pieter and Val take the same tests. Both tests are worth the same number of marks.
    Here are their results.

    Test A Test B

    Paul 30 40

    Val 28 39

    Whose result has the greater percentage increase from test A to test B?
    Show your working.

    Cambridge IGCSE Maths Teacher’s Pack, © HarperCollinsPublishers Ltd 2011

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