
Unit 7: Numeracy skills
Percentages
Now try these questions:
- i. What is 20% of £80 ?
- ii. What percentage of £8 is 20p ?
- iii. What is 50% of 5 / 8 ? Express the answer as a fraction.
- iv. By how much is 43% of 64 more than 35% of 64 ? Answer to the nearest whole number.
- v. Calculate 70% of 1.5 + 60% of 3.5
- vi. How much (to the nearest pound) would three dozen bottles cost @ £5.75 each plus 17.5% V.A.T ?
- vii. Express 30p as a percentage of £50
- viii. Calculate 50% of 0.005
- ix. Express 7 / 12 as a percentage
- x. In a constituency of 120,680 voters the outcome of an election was as follows.
Moderate Party 43% of valid votes cast
Radical Party 22% of valid votes cast
Extremist Party 9% of valid votes cast
Countryside Party 8% of valid votes cast
15% did not cast a vote
3620 voting slips were spoiled
In answering the following questions, give the whole number, but regard 0.5 or more as 1. ( e.g 1.5 adjusted upwards to 2, 1.499 adjusted downwards to 1 )
x.a What was the number of the majority of votes of the Moderates over the Radicals?
x.b What was the number of the majority of votes of the Moderates over all parties?
x.c What percentage of the constituents spoiled their voting papers?
SMILE - Numeracy skills by Tom Frank, Eric Williams and Clare Wright, University of Birmingham Careers Centre adapted by Marion Kelt Glasgow Caledonian University is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported License.