Percent Increase and Decrease Worksheet
Grade 10 Math worksheet covering percent increase and decrease calculations through various question types.
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Percent Increase and Decrease
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Read each question carefully and calculate the percent increase or decrease as required. Show all your work.
1. A shirt originally priced at $40 is now on sale for $32. What is the percent decrease?
8%
20%
25%
32%
2. The population of a town increased from 15,000 to 18,000. What is the percent increase?
3%
15%
20%
25%
3. If a price of $20 is increased by 15%, the new price is .
4. A stock dropped from $50 to $45. This represents a percent decrease of .
5. A car's value depreciated from $25,000 to $20,000 in one year. Calculate the percent decrease in its value.
6. A store increased the price of a laptop by 10%. If the original price was $800, what is the new price?
7. An item that costs $100 and increases by 20% will then cost $120.
True
False
8. A decrease from 50 to 40 is a 20% decrease.
True
False
9. A company's revenue increased from $1,200,000 last year to $1,500,000 this year. What is the percent increase in revenue? If the target increase was 20%, did they meet their goal?
10. Due to a recession, a factory reduced its workforce from 250 employees to 200 employees. What is the percent decrease in the number of employees?