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Grade 2 · Foundation · free GCSE maths worksheet

Finding 10%, 25% and 50% of an amount

Mental percentage methods without a calculator.

11 original questions, 21 marks. Print the worksheet, mark it with the answers sheet, and use the solutions to see every step written out by hand.

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The questions

1

Write down 50% of £86

1 mark
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£43
2

Work out 50% of £84

1 mark
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£42
3

Work out 15% of £60

2 marks
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£9
4

Work out 10% of £260

1 mark
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£26
5

Work out 25% of 240 kg

1 mark
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60 kg
6

Work out 30% of 450

2 marks
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135
7

Work out 5% of £360

2 marks
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£18
8

A jacket costs £84. In a sale, 25% is taken off the price.

Work out the sale price of the jacket.

3 marks
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£63
9

A school has 400 pupils. 25% of them walk to school and 10% cycle.

  1. How many pupils walk to school?
  2. How many pupils cycle?
  3. How many pupils neither walk nor cycle?
3 marks
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a) 100 b) 40 c) 260
10

A phone case costs £14.50. Tom gets 10% off.

  1. Work out the discount.
  2. Work out the price Tom pays.
2 marks
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a) £1.45 b) £13.05
11

Mia has 2 hours to do her homework. She spends 50% of the time on maths and 14 of the time on English. She spends the rest of the time on science.

How many minutes does she spend on science?

3 marks
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30 minutes

Every question here is original and written by Robinson Tuition. The grade follows the Edexcel grade descriptors and suits AQA and OCR too; this is not an exam-board paper.

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