| Question | Answer |
| Sean earns £18,000 per year, he pays 20% tax on his earnings, he also pays 11% national insurance. How much does he have left each month? | 1035
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John wants to earn some money over the summer, he buys 120 cans for £30. He wants to make a 40% profit, how much does he need to sell each can for? | 35p
| Harry buys a car for £16,000 his old car gets him a £1700 discount. He pays 35% of the remaining balance straight away and then pays for the rest in instalments over 10 months. How much does he pay in each instalment? | £929.50
| A theme park charges £18 per adult and £11 per child, a discount of 15% is given if more than 10 people. A school books a trip for 18 children and 3 adults. How much do they pay? | £214.20
| A phone costs £450 RRP, at shop A there is an offer of 22% if bought with a case that costs £30, at shop B there is a discount of 15%, which costs you less in total? | Shop A at £381
| A shop is having a sale of 20% off. Today there is a special blue cross sale of an extra 10% off. A top costs £23 before the sale, what does it cost today? | £16.56
| On my maths test, I got 78%. There were 65 questions, what is the most amount of marks I could have got correct? | 51
| On a chocolate bar, there is 5g of fat. This is 8% of your daily amount, so what is the daily amount? | 62,5
| What does percent mean? | per 100, a part of 100 where 100 is a whole.
| Tom has a savings account, he saves 12% of his wages each month. His wages for January, February and March are £180, £320 and £258 respectively. What amount does he save over the three months? | £90.96
| In a savings account, the interest rate is 4% per year. There is £1250 in the account, how much is in there at the end of the year? | £1300
| Sally gets paid £1200 per month and 15% commission on her sales per month. This month she sells £550. How much does she earn this month? | £1282.50
| How do we convert a decimal to a percentage? | multiply by 100
| Order these; 0.43, 0.3, 31%, 3%, 0.07, 4.3% | 3%, 4.3%, 0.07, 0.3, 31%, 0.43
| What is 5/8 as a percentage? | 62.5%
| Last year 2000 trees were cut down for production purposes. This year there has been a 7.5% reduction. How many trees were cut down this year? | 1850
| A shop sells a sofa for £500 not including VAT. VAT is 17.5%, what does the sofa cost after VAT? | £587.50
| A survey on different types of ice-cream people liked was conducted. 200 people were surveyed, 35 prefered chocolate, 24% chose strawberry and 43% picked vanilla. How many picked mint? | 31
| 38% of my wages goes on nursery bills. Nursery costs £800 a month, how much do I earn each month approximately? | £2105.26
| A baby weighs 1.7kg when he was born, at 6 months he has put on 70% of his weight. How much does he weigh after 6 months? | 2.89kg |
