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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?

a

8%

b

20%

c

25%

d

32%

2. The population of a town increased from 15,000 to 18,000. What is the percent increase?

a

3%

b

15%

c

20%

d

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.

T

True

F

False

8. A decrease from 50 to 40 is a 20% decrease.

T

True

F

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?