SOLVING MULTISTEP PROBLEMS ON PERCENTAGE AND AMOUNT WORKSHEET

Problem 1 :

A supermarket has 1800 kg of root vegetables. 50% are potatoes and 25% are onions. What mass are the remaining root vegetables?

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Problem 2 :

A school have a sponsored spell to raise money for their chosen charity, raising £764. 50% of the money is raised through dressing up. Of the remaining money, 25% is raised by selling cakes. The rest is raised by pupils paying to play games. How much is raised by playing games?

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Problem 3 :

A book is 340 pages long. 10% of the book is the introduction. Alex reads the introduction and 50% of the rest of the book in one week. How many pages are left to read?.

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Problem 4 :

A plasterer buys fifteen 25 kg bags of plaster. At the end of the week, only 10% of the plaster is left. How much plaster did they use?

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Problem 5 :

A football team train for 18 hours every week. 25% of the time is spent on fitness and 10% on skills. The rest of the time is spent preparing for the next month. How long is spent on preparing for the next match?

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Problem 6 :

In a class of 30 children, 10% cycle to school. Another 10% come by bus. 25% of the remaining children come by car. The rest of the children walk. How many children walk to school?

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Problem 7 :

The population of a town is 24 400. 25% of the people are children. 10% of the children are under the age of two. How many children under the age of two live in the town?

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Problem 8 :

A school orders 80 packs of pencils. Each pack contains 12 pencils. 10% of the pencils are given out the day they arrive in school. How many pencils are given out on that first day?

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Problem 9 :

A bakery uses 48 kg of flour each day to bake bread. 2 kg of flour makes three loaves of bread. 25% of the loaves are wholemeal loaves. How many wholemeal loaves are baked each day?

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Problem 10 :

A sunflower is measured at the beginning of June and is 40 cm tall. The sunflower grows by 25% each month for three months. What height is the sunflower to the nearest centimetre at the beginning of September?

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