Finding Percentages of Amounts
Twinkl Department Store Sale!
For one day only, we’ve cut the prices of all our stock for Twinkl Loyalty Card owners! Each
item is now only a percentage of its full price. The loyalty card next to each item shows the
percentage of the full price that the item costs in the sale.
Top tip: Use your knowledge of calculating 10%, 5% and 1% as well as 50% and 25% to help
you calculate the sale percentages. Eg 48% of £15.00 could be worked out the following way.
10% = £1.50 40% = £6.00
5% = £0.75 5% = £0.75
1% = £0.15 + 3% = £0.45
48% = £7.20
1
1.
15% of price =
15%
£46
.20
2.
27% of price =
27%
£12
.00
3.
55% of price =
55%
£16
.40
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Finding Percentages of Amounts
4.
11% of price =
11%
£62
.00
5.
63% of price =
63%
£15
8.00
6.
43% of price =
43%
£32
.00
7.
88% of price =
88%
£5.5
0
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8.
23% of price =
23%
£16
.00
9.
61% of price =
61%
£7.0
0
10.
17.5% of price =
17.5%
£36
.00
Challenge: Next week, all the standard prices will increase by the following percentages:
• The book, mobile phone, and jeans will increase by 10% on their full price.
• The trainers, pencil case and football will increase by 20% on their full price.
• The hairdryer, tablet, t-shirt and guitar will increase by 30% on their full price.
Can you work out what the new price for each item will be? (Hint: Find one tenth for 10%,
double it for 20% and triple it for 30% and add it to the full price.)
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Finding Percentages of Amounts Answers
Challenge
Item Full Price Sale Price
(+5% Price)
1. Trainers £46.20 15% = £6.93 +20% = £55.44
2. Book £12.00 27% = £3.24 +10% = £13.20
3. Hairdryer £16.40 55% = £9.02 +30% = £21.32
4. Mobile phone £62.00 11% = £6.82 +10% = £68.20
5. Tablet £158.00 63% = £99.54 +30% = £205.40
6. Jeans £32.00 43% = £13.76 +10% = £35.20
7. Pencil case £5.50 88% = £4.84 +20% = £6.60
8. T-Shirt £16.00 23% = £3.68 +30% = £20.80
9. Football £7.00 61% = £4.27 +20% = £8.40
10. Guitar £36.00 17.5% = £6.30 +30% = £46.80
