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1. Patrick invested money into a special savers bank account.
Each year money in the account earns 4% interest.

After one year, the total amount of money in the account was £291.20

How much did Patrick invest?

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2. The population of Sandcliff has decreased by 2% over the past year.

The population of Sandcliff this year is 52920

Calculate the population of Sandcliff last year.

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3. A box contains red and yellow marbles.
40% of the marbles in the box are yellow.

There are 80 yellow marbles in the box.

Work out the total number of marbles in the box.

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4. Ottawa is the capital city of Canada.

The population of Ottawa is 1,020,000.
This population is 2.5% of the total population of Canada.

What is the total population of Canada?

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5. A lamp is on sale at £22.05
This is a 10% reduction of the normal price.

What was the price of the lamp before the reduction?

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6. Jacob buys a watch costing £84

This cost includes VAT at a rate of 20%.

How much is the watch without VAT?

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7. A cafe sells 3 types of hot drinks: coffee, tea or hot chocolate.

On Tuesday morning, the cafe sold 96 coffees.

This was 60% of the total number of hot drinks sold.

Work out the total number of hot drinks sold on Tuesday morning.

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8. Jennifer has 54 books.

This number of books is 80% more than the number she had last month.

How many books did Jennifer have last month?

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9. Lauren is given a 12% pay rise.
Her new salary is £24,080

What was Lauren’s salary before the pay rise?

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10. A limited edition bag of flour contains 25% more than the standard bag.
The limited edition bag contains 650g of flour.

How much flour is in the standard bag?

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11. A fish tank sprung a leak and loses 45% of its water.
There is now 363 litres of water in the fish tank.

How much water was in the fish tank before the leak?

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12. Mrs Reed buys a van costing £11760

This cost includes VAT at a rate of 20%.

How much is the VAT?

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13. In a sale the price of a sofa is reduced by 70%.
The sale price is £255

Work out the price before the sale.

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14. Cormac buys a new bicycle.

He has a voucher that gives him 6% off the usual price.

Cormac pays £799 for the bicycle.

Work out how much money Cormac saved by using the voucher.

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15. Rosie sold her house for £180000

The price of her house depreciated by 6.25% since Rosie originally bought it.

Work out how much Rosie originally paid for the house.

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16. The number of visitors to a museum increased 16.4% between 2022 and 2023.

The number of visitors in 2023 was 97776.

Calculate the number of visitors in 2022.

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17. Lukas cycled 10% further in October than September.

Lukas cycled 308km in October.

Work out how much further Lukas cycled in October than September

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18. Emilia saves £350 each month for a year towards a car.

She buys the car by paying a deposit and 60 monthly payments of £180

Emilia uses the money she saved to pay 80% of the deposit.

Work out the total cost of the car.

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19. Aisha bought a house two years ago.

The value of the house increased by 10% over the first year.
The value then increased by 8% the following year.

The house is now valued at £291060

Work out how much Aisha paid for the house two years ago.

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20. There are 6000 people at an ice hockey match.

The announcer says this is exactly 40% more people that the previous match.

Explain why the announcer is incorrect.

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21. Cillian has saved 79% more money than his brother, Rufus.

Altogether they have £1618.20 in savings.

Work out how much money Cillian has saved.

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22. Lorcan has red and green apples.

A quarter of the apples are green.

Lorcan puts the apples in two boxes, A and B.

65% of the green apples are placed in box A.

There are 133 green apples are in box B.

Work out how many red apples Lorcan has.

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23. A football team has won 12% of the matches that they have ever played.

They have drawn a quarter of the rest of the matches.

The football team have lost 924 matches.

Work out the total number of matches played by the football team.

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24. Amie and Poppy were both given a pay rise.

Amie was given a 25% pay rise and Poppy a 4% pay rise.

The ratio of Amie’s salary to Poppy’s salary is now 9:13

Poppy’s pay before the pay rise was £50000

Work out Amie’s pay before the pay rise.

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