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1 A music teacher needs to buy all the instruments for the school orchestra.

Number of Price of each

Cost ($)
instruments instrument ($)

String 36 131 4716

Woodwind 15 217

Brass 12 221

(a) Complete the table.

[1]

(b) Find the total cost of all the instruments.

$ ................................................... [1]

(c) The school is given 65% of the total cost of all the instruments.

Find how much more money is needed.

$ ................................................... [2]

[Total: 4]

2 Work out $1.20 as a percentage of $16.

................................................... % [1]

[Total: 1]
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3 George spends $12 on fruit each week.

The total amount he spends on food is $75.

Work out the percentage of the $75 he spends on fruit.

................................................... % [1]

[Total: 1]

4 The 15 woodwind instruments in an orchestra are oboes, flutes and clarinets.

20% of these instruments are oboes.
There are twice as many flutes as clarinets.

Find the number of flutes.

................................................... [2]

[Total: 2]

5 Work out 8% of 140.

................................................... [1]

[Total: 1]

6 Work out $1.45 as a percentage of $72.50 .

................................................... % [1]

[Total: 1]

7 This table shows the opening hours of Lena’s café.

Day Opening hours

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Monday to Thursday 08 30 to 17 00

Friday and Saturday 08 30 to 19 00

Sunday 09 00 to 18 00

(a) Work out the total number of hours the café is open in one week.

................................................... hours [2]

(b) Lena is in the café for 40 hours each week.

Ron is in the café when Lena is not there.

Calculate the percentage of the total opening hours that Ron is in the café each week.

................................................... % [2]

[Total: 4]

8 Mr and Mrs Baker go on holiday with their three children.

They fly from Miami to Mexico City.

The cost of each adult ticket is $450.

The cost of each child ticket is 70% of the cost of an adult ticket.

Calculate the total cost of the five tickets.

$ ................................................... [3]

[Total: 3]
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9 One Tuesday, there are 24 children out of 80 people in a cinema.

Find the percentage of these people that are children.

................................................... % [1]

[Total: 1]

10 Increase $22 by 15%.

$ ................................................... [2]

[Total: 2]

11 Sara invests $500 for 15 years at a rate of 2% per year simple interest.

Calculate the total interest Sara receives.

$ ................................................... [2]

[Total: 2]
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12 Dev makes 600 cakes.

18% of the 600 cakes go to a hotel and of the 600 cakes go to a supermarket.

Calculate how many cakes he has left.

................................................... [3]

[Total: 3]

13 25 students go on a water sports trip.

The students each choose their favourite water sport.
These are the results.

Rafting Fishing Surfing Snorkelling Surfing

Snorkelling Rafting Kayaking Rafting Snorkelling
Fishing Surfing Surfing Kayaking Surfing
Fishing Snorkelling Surfing Surfing Rafting
Rafting Fishing Snorkelling Snorkelling Surfing

(a) Complete the frequency table for the results.

You may use the tally column to help you.

Favourite water sport Tally Frequency

Rafting

Surfing

Fishing

Kayaking

Snorkelling

[2]
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(b) Write down the mode.

................................................... [1]

(c) Work out the percentage of students whose favourite water sport is snorkelling.

................................................... % [1]

[Total: 4]

14 Work out $216 as a percentage of $600.

................................................... % [1]

[Total: 1]

15 A mass of 300 kg is increased by 8%.

Work out the increase in mass.

Answer ................................................... kg [1]

[Total: 1]

16 Harry invests $800 for 2 years at a rate of 3% per year compound interest.

Calculate the amount of interest he receives at the end of the 2 years.

$ ................................................... [3]

[Total: 3]
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17 Mr Lester buys pineapples for $1.50 each.

He makes 60% profit when he sells them.

Work out the selling price of a pineapple.

$ ................................................... [2]

[Total: 2]

18 Scott invests $500 for 7 years at a rate of 1.5% per year simple interest.

Calculate the value of his investment at the end of the 7 years.

$ ................................................... [3]

[Total: 3]

19 The price of a book increases from $2.50 to $2.65 .

Calculate the percentage increase.

................................................... % [3]

[Total: 3]
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20 Jan invests $800 at a rate of 3% per year simple interest.

Calculate the value of her investment at the end of 4 years.

$ ................................................... [3]

[Total: 3]

21 Samit invests $1800 at a rate of 4.5% per year simple interest.

Work out the value of his investment at the end of 4 years.

$ ................................................... [3]

[Total: 3]

22 Jo invests $5000 at a rate of 2% per year compound interest.

Calculate the value of her investment at the end of 3 years.

$ ................................................... [3]

[Total: 3]
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23 Here is a list of ingredients to make 20 biscuits.

(a) Find the mass of rice as a percentage of the mass of sugar.

................................................... % [1]

(b) Find the mass of butter needed to make 35 of these biscuits.

................................................... g [2]

(c) Michel has 2 kg of each ingredient.

Work out the greatest number of these biscuits that he can make.

................................................... [3]

[Total: 6]

24 Ella borrows $10 840 from a bank.

She pays this back over 3 years at a rate of $340 per month.

(a) Show that the total amount she pays back during the 3 years is $12 240.

[1]
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(b) Calculate the percentage increase from $10 840 to $12 240.

................................................... % [3]

[Total: 4]

25 In 2015, there were 12 400 visitors to a museum.

In 2016, there were 14 100 visitors to the museum.

Calculate the percentage increase in the number of visitors from 2015 to 2016.

................................................... % [3]

[Total: 3]

26 Walter invests $600 for 3 years at a rate of 4.5% per year compound interest.

Calculate the interest Walter receives at the end of the 3 years.

$ ................................................... [3]

[Total: 3]