Percent & Ratio
Understand percentages and ratios, and use them for discounts, sharing and comparisons.
What your child learns
- Percent means 'out of 100'
- Find percentages from 10% and 5%
- Simplify ratios and share amounts in a given ratio
Example
Share 30 in the ratio 2 : 3 → 5 parts of 6 → 12 and 18.
Practice questions
A taste of the questions in BloomTracks – the app makes fresh ones every time and adjusts the level as your child answers.
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Question 1 · Level 1
What is 1% of 500?
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Answer: 5
1% of 500: divide by 100 → 5.
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Question 2 · Level 3
What is 20% of 280?
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Answer: 56
20% of 280 = 0.2 × 280 = 56.
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Question 3 · Level 5
After a 50% discount, a bike costs $20. What was the original price?
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Answer: 40
50% = $20, so 100% = $20 ÷ 0.5 = $40.
Try it at home
Look at sale signs and work out the new price together.
Key takeaway
For ratio problems, find the value of ONE part first.
Practise percent & ratio with Bloomie
Bloomie reads every question aloud, listens to spoken answers and adapts the difficulty one question at a time.