Percent Increase and Decrease Worksheet
A Grade 9 math worksheet focusing on calculating and understanding percent increase and decrease in various real-world scenarios.
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Percent Increase and Decrease
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Read each question carefully and calculate the percent increase or decrease. Show your work in the space provided.
1. A shirt that originally cost $25 is now priced at $30. What is the percent increase in the price of the shirt?
2. The population of a town increased from 8,000 to 9,200 in a year. Calculate the percent increase in population.
3. A car was bought for $15,000 and sold for $12,000 a few years later. What is the percent decrease in the car's value?
4. During a sale, a laptop's price dropped from $800 to $680. What is the percent decrease in the laptop's price?
5. If a stock's value increased from $50 to $65, what is the percent increase?
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35%
6. A jacket that was $120 is now on sale for $96. What is the percent decrease?
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24%
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7. If an item's price increases by 10%, and then decreases by 10%, its final price will be the same as its original price.
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8. To find the percent increase, you divide the amount of increase by the and then multiply by 100.
9. If a value decreases from 200 to 150, the amount of decrease is .
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