4.
3 Percentage change
1 There is a 20% discount in a sale.
A pair of trainers has a sale price of £48.
What was their original price?
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2 A shop has three items on sale.
The table shows the discount for each item and the sale price.
Complete the table.
Original price Discount Sale price
Item 1 12% £70.40
Item 2 45% £17.60
Item 3 65% £43.05
3 From 2009 to 2019, the population of a town increased by 5% to 130 200.
What was the population of the town in 2009?
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4 Maisie invests £4500.
When her investment matures she receives £4635.
Calculate the percentage increase in her investment.
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5 Dean buys a car for £18 200.
He sells is for £15 470.
What percentage loss has he made on the car?
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4.3 Percentage change
1 From 2016 to 2017, visitor numbers to a theme park increased by 20%.
From 2017 to 2018, visitor numbers to the theme park decreased by 15%.
In 2018 there were 98 328 visitors.
How many visitors were there in 2016?
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2 60% of a number is 240.
a Calculate 10% of the number, then use this to find 100%.
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b What percentage decrease of the original number gives 240? .......................
c What would you need to divide 240 by to get the original number? .......................
3 The pie charts show the proportions of electricity generated by different sources
in the UK in 2008 and 2018.
In 2008 the total amount of electricity generated in the UK was 389 terawatt hours (TWh).
In 2018 the total amount of electricity generated in the UK was 335 TWh.
a ‘Other’ accounted for 9% in 2008 and 3% in 2018. Does this mean that the amount of
electricity generated from ‘Other’ sources in 2008 was triple the amount in 2018? Explain.
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b Work out the percentage decrease in the amount of electricity generated
by using coal from 2008 to 2018.
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c Work out the percentage increase in the amount of electricity generated
by using renewables from 2008 to 2018.
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4 Chloe invests £720 into an investment that pays simple interest for 10 years.
At the end of the 10 years her investment is worth £954.
What is the yearly simple interest percentage?
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4.3 Percentage change
1 The original price of a TV has dropped by 10%.
Its current price is now £378.
a What percentage of the original price is the TV’s current price? .......................
b Complete to work out the original price of the TV.
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2 A shop reduces all of its prices by 15%.
A jacket now costs £68.
Complete the mapping diagram to work out the original price of the jacket.
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3 The price of a painting increases from £800 to £960.
a What is the actual change in price? .......................
b Complete: percentage change = × 100 = .......
800
4 One week, Arif runs 5 km in 35 minutes.
The next week he runs 5 km in 28 minutes.
a What is the actual change in time? .......................
b What was Arif's original time? .......................
c Complete: percentage change = × 100 = .......
5 In a sale, a phone is reduced from £400 to £360.
Toby is calculating the percentage change.
£400 − £360 = £40
40
Percentage change = × 100 = 24%
360
a Explain what he has done wrong.
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b Calculate the percentage change correctly. .......................
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4.3 Percentage change
Core
1 £60
2 £80, £32, £123
3 124 000
4 3%
5 15%
Depth
1 96 400
2 a 400 b 40% c 0.6
3 a No, 9% of 389 is different from 3 times 3% of 335
b 86.1% c 2741.9%
4 3.25%
Support
1 a 90% b £420
2 £80
3 a £160 b 20%
4 a 7 minutes
b 35 minutes
c 20%
5 a He has divided by the new price.
b 10%
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