Steph is going to buy a hat that is marked as 25\% off. The original price was \$36.
What is the value of the discount?
What is the price that Steph will pay for the hat?
Paul is going to buy an eraser from a stationery store that is having a storewide 10\% off sale. The original price of the eraser was \$6.
What is the value of the discount?
What is the price that Paul will pay for the eraser?
A movie ticket usually costs \$21 but staff are given a 40\% discount.
How much less do staff pay for a ticket?
What price do staff pay for a ticket?
The full price is \$300. Yvonne receives a discount of 55\%.
How much would a 10\% discount be?
How much would a 5\% discount be?
Hence, find the discount that Yvonne received.
Emma is going to purchase some sports gear on layby. This involves paying some money as a deposit and paying the remainder later. The amount of the layby is \$100.
If the amount the store needs as a deposit is 50\%, calculate the amount of the deposit.
Calculate the remaining balance on the layby.
A store is offering a 20\% discount on all goods. Ivan purchases a fridge with an original price of \$640 and a stove with an original price of \$840.
Without the discount, how much would Ivan have to pay altogether?
Calculate the discount amount that Ivan receives for the fridge.
Calculate the discount amount that Ivan receives for the stove.
Calculate the total discount amount that Ivan receives.
Find the amount Ivan pays for the goods after the discount.
Jenny is going to buy a ruler from a stationary store that is having a 50\% off everything sale. The original price was \$5.
What is the value of the discount?
What is the price that Jenny will pay for the ruler?
Bart receives a 20\% discount off a bill for paying cash.
What percentage of the bill does Bart pay?
Calculate the amount Bart pays if the original bill was \$65.
An item with an original price of \$230 is sold at a discount of \$69.
Calculate the discount rate.
Find the sales price.
A tennis racket marked at a price of \$150 is advertised to be selling at 10\% off the marked price.
Find the amount of the discount on the tennis racket.
Find the discounted price of the tennis racket.
A music store advertises 12\% off all CDs and DVDs. A CD is normally priced at \$16.
Find the amount of the discount on this CD.
Find the discounted price of the CD.
Two book sellers advertised a sale:
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Honest Anne offered 20\% off the original price of her books.
Fair Freddie offered up to 50\% off the original price of his books.
Fiona bought books from Honest Anne. The total original price of her books was \$130. Find the value of the discount she received?
How much did Fiona pay Honest Anne for the books?
At Fair Freddie's, Sarah bought the same books as Fiona at the same original price. She was given 10\% off on the first \$100 worth of books, and 50\% off for the remainder of the original price.
Find the total discount Sarah received on her purchase.
What amount did Sarah pay Fair Freddie for the books?
Who paid the cheapest price: Fiona or Sarah?
A holiday resort in Tasmania reduced its overnight rates from \$232 to \$120.
Find the value of the discount.
Find the percentage discount on the original price. Round your answer to two decimal places.
During a sale period, there is 50\% off on a blouse whose original price was \$674.
Find the value of the discount.
Find the sale price of the blouse.
A game retailer sells new games at a markup of 33\% above the cost price and old games at a markup of 18\%. Calculate the selling price of:
The newly released Super Zora 5 game which has a cost price of \$90.
The old Super Zora 3 game which has a cost price of \$31.
A sales assistant is paid a commission of 15\% on his weekly sales. Find his commission for a week in which he sells products to the value of \$2000.
Maria and Eileen are employed by different companies to sell computers. Their commissions on weekly sales are 4.5\% and 5\%, respectively. This week they each sold \$13\,600 worth of computers.
Find Maria's commission for the week.
Find Eileen's commission for the week.
Who received the higher commission and by how much?
A woman is paid a commission of 9\% on her weekly sales. If her total commission for the week was \$541, calculate:
The value of 1\% of her sales.
The total value of her sales for that week to the nearest dollar.
If person earns a \$1160 commission for \$14\,500 in total sales, calculate their commission rate as percentage.
Luke deposits \$8635 in a bank for one year. The interest rate of the bank is 7\% p.a.
How much interest, did Luke earn for the year?
Find the total amount in his bank account at the end of the year.
Every item in store is sold at 8\% more than its cost. If a product was bought from the manufacturer for \$360, calculate:
Every item in store is sold at 9\% more than its cost. If a product is sold for \$110, calculate:
The cost price.
An investor sold his portfolio at 9\% profit for a price of \$2000. Calculate the original value of his portfolio.
A manufacturer is selling its old factory machinery for \$24\,920, which represents a loss of 39\%. How much did the manufacturer purchase the machinery for?
The value of a car depreciated by 5\% this year. If its value at the start of the year was \$4000:
By how much did it depreciate by?
Calculate the current value of the car.
Lynne bought a property for \$371\,000. In the first year, it increased in value by 12\%, but in the second year, it decreased in value by 6\%. The running costs during the two years amounted to \$1500.
Calculate the amount Lynne earned from the changing value of the property.
Hence, calculate Lynne's total profit.