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Practice of cancelling a fraction, where the denominator will reduce to either 5,10, 20, 25, or 50 and then multiplying numerator and denominator by either 20, 10, 5, 4 or 2 respectively, to represent the fraction as a percentage.  A helpful strategy in the QTS test...

Tweaked the variables to avoid duplicate fractions in the 2 parts & make the second slightly more tricky, on average.  Used the Testing facility to prevent 100 or 200 appearing in the denominators.

Questions about percentage and ratio, applied to finance.

Based on section 3.2 of the Maths-Aid workbook on numerical reasoning.

Non-calculator percentage increase and decrease calculations.

These are worded questions on percentages.  They can be done without a calculator.

 Basics, percentage of an amount, converting to fractions and decimals.

Questions about percentage and ratio, applied to finance.

Based on section 3.2 of the Maths-Aid workbook on numerical reasoning.

6 questions on numerical reasoning using percentages and ratios.

Compute the weighted average salary in a department, given four salary levels and the percentages of staff earning them.

Scale a page to some percentage of its original size, then increase/decrease by another percentage. Find the size of the final copy as a percentage of the original.

Based on question 2 from section 3 of the Maths-Aid workbook on numerical reasoning.

Given the selling price of an item both as a cash amount and as a percentage of the cost of production, find the cost of production and the profit.

Based on question 1 from section 3 of the Maths-Aid workbook on numerical reasoning.

Given cost of production and price of sale of a product; a percentage increase in cost of production; and unit sales before and after; work out the extra profit.

Based on question 6 from section 3 of the maths-aid workbook on numerical reasoning.

Given percentages of males and females working on a project, and the percentage of the total staff who are male (or female), find the percentage of all staff working on the project.

Based on question 3 from section 3 of the maths-aid workbook on numerical reasoning.

Based on section 3 of the maths-aid/mathcentre workbook on numerical reasoning.

Questions about percentage and ratio, applied to finance.

Based on section 3.2 of the Maths-Aid workbook on numerical reasoning.