Numeracy Test 3

1) If you enter a casino with £150 and leave with £95. What percentage of the original amount did you spend ?

2) A friend joins your company as a graduate on a salary of £16,500. Three years later they are earning £24,000. What has been the average yearly percentage increase ?

3) What is 13.2% of 450 ?

4) What is 450 minus 15% ?

5) A fish tank contains 15 fish. 3 days later 2 of the fish are dead. What percentage is left ?

6) Your colleague gets a pay rise. Their salary was £20,500 and is now £28,000. What is the percentage increase ?

7) A member of staff has her salary increased by 7% to £32,000. What was her original salary before the increase ?

8) 0.8 of a class of 31 pupils took park in a school trip. How many pupils did not take part ?

9) Your colleague gets a pay rise. Their salary was £24,000 and is now £34,000. What is the percentage increase ?

10) A member of staff has a current salary of £26,200. What is their new salary if they receive a 5% pay rise ?

11) Your colleague gets demoted. Their pay decreases by 4.5% and they were earning £21,500. What is their new salary ?

12) Calculate 7% less than 67 ?

13) Growing up, you lived in a tiny country village. When you left for college, the population was 840. You recently heard that the population has grown by 5%. What is the present population ?

14) Your friend diets and goes from 125 pounds to 110 pounds. What was her percentage weight loss ?

15) Your boss says that his wife has laid new turf along the whole back end of their garden over an area of 18x15 square feet. He says that this has covered 24% of the garden.
a) What are the total dimensions of his garden ?
b) What are the dimensions of the remaining lawn area ?

16) A computer software retailer used a mark up rate of 40%. Find the selling price of a computer game that cost the retailer $25 ?

17) Calculate 6.5% more than 77 ?

18) A golf shop pays its wholesaler $40 for a certain club, and then sells it to a golfer for $75. What is the mark up rate ?

19) A shoe store uses a 40% mark up on cost. Find the cost of a pair of shoes that sells for $63 ?

20) An item originally priced at $55 is marked 25% off. What is the sale price ?

21) An item that regularly sells for $425 is marked down to $318.75. What is the discount rate ?

22) An item is marked down 15%; the sale price is $127.46. What was the original price ?

23) What percent of 20 is 30 ?

24) What is 35% of 80 ?

25) 45% of what is 9 ?

26) Suppose you bought something that was priced at $6.95, and the total bill was $7.61. What is the sales tax rate in this city? (Round answer to one decimal place.)

27) Suppose a certain item used to sell for seventy-five cents a pound, you see that it's been marked up to eighty-one cents a pound. What is the percent increase ?

28) Calculate 6.9% more than 79 ?

29) 65% of what is 9 ?

30) Your colleague gets demoted. Their pay decreases by 6.5% and they were earning £23,500. What is their new salary ?