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Percentage Change

Practise calculating percentage increase and percentage decrease in this set of exercises.

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This is level 4: find the percentage decrease given the original and final values. You can earn a trophy if you get at least 7 questions correct. You can use a calculator.

1. If 120 decreases to 102, by what percentage has it decreased? % Correct Wrong

2. Find the percentage decrease if 80 is reduced to 48. % Correct Wrong

3. If 140 decreases to 105, by what percentage has it decreased? % Correct Wrong

4. Find the percentage decrease if 120 is reduced to 12. % Correct Wrong

5. Yesterday 650 flies were eaten by frogs in the park. Today the number of flies decreased to 507 flies. By what percentage has the number of flies eaten decreased?

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6. By what percentage is 152 less than 200? % Correct Wrong

7. Find the percentage decrease if a computer game score of 150 is reduced to 147 due to penalty points.

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8. 10740 people entered the Trantown Marathon this year. That's a decrease on last year's entries. Last year 71600 people entered. What percentage has the number of entries decreased from last year to this year?

Marathon
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9. The number of people watching the Cliff Diving Monkeys YouTube video on the first day was 48500. On the second day the number of people viewing it was reduced to 29585. What is this reduction expressed as a percentage?

Monkeys
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10. This year only 39123 peopled auditioned for Z Factor compared to 48300 last year. By what percentage has the number of people decreased since last year? % Correct Wrong

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This is Percentage Change level 4. You can also try:
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Simple Percentages - A good place to start.

Level 1 - Find the new amount after a percentage increase.

Level 2 - Find the new amount after a percentage decrease.

Level 3 - Find the percentage increase given the original and final values.

Level 4 - Find the percentage decrease given the original and final values.

Level 5 - Find the original amount after a percentage increase or decrease given the final value.

Level 6 - Mixed questions.

Level 7 - Challenging questions.

Switch - Practise percentage increase and decrease calculations by completing this table.

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