Percentage Increase and Decrease WORKSHEET

Suitable for Year groups: Year 8, Year 9

GCSE Tier: Foundation/Higher

Targeting grades: 4-5

Prerequisite knowledge: Students need to be confident dividing by 2, 4 and 10, Students should know how to find 10%, 50% and understand that other percentage can be found using these values.

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Percentage Increase and Decrease WORKSHEET DESCRIPTION

A great set of non-calculator questions on finding percentage increases and decreases, this worksheet will give plenty of opportunity for students to practise and consolidate the skill ready for the non-calculator GCSE exam paper.

Section A has separate tables for increasing and decreasing some amounts of increasing difficulty by some straightforward percentages.

Section B then provides some contextual problem-solving questions similar to those in the GCSE Mathematics examination.