Year 5 Maths: Percentages
A Year 5 percentages worksheet covering finding percentages of amounts, converting between fractions, decimals, and percentages, and percentage word problems.
Learning objectives
- Find percentages of amounts using mental and written methods
- Convert between percentages, decimals, and fractions
- Solve percentage word problems in context
Instructions
Show all working for each question. For word problems, write your answer as a full sentence.
Questions
What is 50% of 80?
What is 25% of 120?
What is 10% of 350?
What is 20% of 65?
Write 75% as a fraction in its simplest form.
Write 0.4 as a percentage.
Write 3/5 as a percentage.
A jacket costs £80. It is reduced by 30% in a sale. What is the sale price?
In a class of 30 children, 40% are girls. How many girls are in the class?
A school has 450 pupils. 60% travel to school by car. How many pupils travel by car?
Order from smallest to largest: 35%, 1/4, 0.3
What percentage is 18 out of 24?
Answer Key
Teacher / Parent copyTeacher note
Encourage pupils to use 10% as a building block (e.g. 30% = 3 × 10%). This develops flexible mental calculation rather than reliance on rote methods. The final question on finding a percentage introduces reverse percentage thinking which bridges to Year 6 content.
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