6. Survey the people in your class to fi nd out: a) What percentage walk to school? b) What percentage are the eldest in their families? c) What percentage play a musical instrument? d) What percentage have pets at home?
Puzzler
If the number of pupils in a school increased from 240 to 300 one year and then back to 240 the following year, is it true to say that the percentage increase from year 1 to year 2 was the same as the percentage decrease from year 2 to year 3? Prove your answer.
7. a) What percentage of the European Union countries use the euro as their currency? b) What percentage do not use the euro?
8. What percentage of the Irish counties begins with the letter W? 9. Calculate what percentage of your family are over 20 years old.
10. Design a table to record what percentage of your class was in school each day last week. What day had the highest percentage of children in school?
11. a) Find the percentages. Subject English Gaeilge Maths
Geography
Result 42 60 18
132
Out of 50 75 20
150 b) Find some recent test results of your own and change them to percentages. Percentage