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The document contains 5 math homework problems involving calculating percentages. Problem 1 has sub-problems calculating percentages of amounts. Problem 2 involves calculating percentages of a class that are girls and boys. Problem 3 calculates the percentage of farmland used for pasture. Problem 4 involves calculating percentages of profit on retail prices. Problem 5 calculates percentage increases between test scores for two students.

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Homework 2.7

The document contains 5 math homework problems involving calculating percentages. Problem 1 has sub-problems calculating percentages of amounts. Problem 2 involves calculating percentages of a class that are girls and boys. Problem 3 calculates the percentage of farmland used for pasture. Problem 4 involves calculating percentages of profit on retail prices. Problem 5 calculates percentage increases between test scores for two students.

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2.

7 One quantity as a percentage of another


Homework
1 Express each of the following as a percentage. Give your answers to 1 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 1 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 Paul and Val take the same tests. Both tests are worth the same number of marks.
Here are their results.

Test A Test B

Pau 30 40
l

Val 28 39

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

Cambridge IGCSE™ Maths Teacher’s Guide © HarperCollinsPublishers Ltd 2023

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