Puzzle
NumberPuzzle
No match:Percentages of amounts
Twenty-five percentages of amounts, from 50% and 10% up to 17.5%, 0.5% and 120%, without a calculator. Cross each answer off the bank; the five with no match give the letters for an anagram. The bank catches the slips: 1% of 700 worked as 70, 5% of 7 as 3.5.
A free key stage 3 and GCSE number puzzle with answers, spec codes N12 and R9. It goes with the lesson on percentage of an amount.
Lesson
Percentage of an amount
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