Increasing and Decreasing Percentages Worksheet
Practice worksheet for 7th grade students to understand and calculate increasing and decreasing percentages in real-world scenarios.
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Increasing and Decreasing Percentages
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Read each question carefully and solve the problems involving percentage increases and decreases. Show your work where applicable.
1. To find a percentage increase, you first find the amount of increase, then divide by the amount and multiply by 100.
2. When a price decreases by 20%, the new price is % of the original price.
3. If a quantity increases from 50 to 60, the absolute increase is .
4. A shirt originally costs $25. If it is on sale for 20% off, what is the sale price?
$5.00
$20.00
$30.00
$15.00
5. A population of bacteria increased from 200 to 250. What is the percentage increase?
20%
25%
50%
125%
6. The price of a gallon of milk increased from $3.00 to $3.60. What is the percentage increase?
7. A bicycle that originally cost $200 is now on sale for $160. What is the percentage decrease in price?
8. If a value decreases by 10%, it is equivalent to multiplying the original value by 0.90.
True
False
9. An increase of 50% means the new value is half of the original value.
True
False
10. A store buys a speaker for $80. They mark up the price by 25% to sell it. During a sale, they offer a 10% discount on the marked-up price. What is the final selling price of the speaker?