PercentPercent increase
Name: Date:
Work out each new amount.
160% more than 130 =
260% more than 145 =
380% more than 200 =
450% more than 88 =
520% more than 70 =
625% more than 168 =
740% more than 95 =
875% more than 56 =
Percent increase and decrease worksheets
Finding 25% of 80 is one step. Knowing whether the answer is 20 or 100 is the step this sheet is about, the half of percent that shows up in shops, tips and every discount a child will ever meet.
If they get stuck
Percent increase and decrease
The answer key prints on a separate page.
What's on this sheet
The questions are worded as comparisons, not as instructions: “25% more than 80” rather than “increase 80 by 25%”. That is deliberate and it is how the idea actually arrives — a price 25% higher, a class 10% smaller — and it makes the child decide what to do rather than follow a verb. The arithmetic underneath is percent-of plus one addition or one subtraction; the reasoning is which of the two, and whether the starting number is part of the answer.
Why this sheet works
Every answer is a whole number, and that is a constraint on the PAIR rather than on either number. 25% of 44 is 11 and 25% of 45 is 11.25 — so the sheet only ever draws numbers where the change lands whole, the way the percent-of sheet already does. Nothing here asks a sixth-grader to write a decimal they have not been taught to expect.
How this one works
60% more than 130
1%of130=1.3
1.3×60=78
130+78=208
- Find one percent first — that is one hundredth of 130, which is 1.3.
- 60% is 60 of those, so multiply: 1.3 × 60 = 78.
- "More than" means the 78 goes ON TOP of the 130, not instead of it: 130 + 78 = 208.