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Percentage Multiplier Worksheet
Help your students prepare for their Maths GCSE with this free percentage multiplier worksheet of 44 questions and answers
- Section 1 of the percentage multiplier worksheet contains 36 skills-based percentage multiplier questions, in 3 groups to support differentiation
- Section 2 contains 4 applied percentage multiplier questions with a mix of worded problems and deeper problem solving questions
- Section 3 contains 4 foundation and higher level GCSE percentage multiplier exam questions
- Answers and a mark scheme for all percentage multiplier questions are provided
- Questions follow variation theory with plenty of opportunities for students to work independently at their own level
- All questions created by fully qualified expert secondary maths teachers
Suitable for GCSE maths revision for AQA, OCR and Edexcel exam boards
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Percentage multiplier at a glance
A percentage multiplier is the decimal equivalent of a percentage, it is used to calculate percentages of amounts, percentage increase and percentage decrease.
When finding percentages of amounts, there are some quantities that students are expected to calculate mentally – such as 50%, 25%, 10%. For trickier amounts (e.g. 47% of 320), the decimal multiplier method is more efficient. We use the decimal equivalent of 47%, which is 0.47, and rewrite the calculation as 0.47 320.
When calculating percentage increase, we take account of the fact that we’re adding to the original amount (100%), so the percentage multiplier for an increase of 7% would be 1.07. When calculating percentage decrease, we’re subtracting from 100%, so the multiplier for a decrease of 12% would be 0.88 (1 – 0.12). This skill has lots of real-life applications, such as calculating sale prices. Repeated percentage change links to ideas such as interest rates and compound depreciation.
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