What does percentage mean?
Word: Percentage
Part of Speech: Noun
Meaning: Percentage means an amount shown as a part of a hundred, such as 75 marks in every 100.
How do you spell percentage?
Syllables: per - cent - age
Tricky part: The s sound in the second beat is spelt with a c. Students who spell by sound write persentage.
Watch out for: persentage, perscentage
Memory tip: A century in cricket is a hundred runs, and this word counts out of a hundred. Both keep that c.
Percentage in a sentence
Example 1: Riya worked out the percentage of her marks after the half-yearly exam.
Example 2: A small percentage of our class comes to school by bus.
Example 3: What percentage of the pizza has gone if six of the twelve slices are eaten?
Fun Fact
The sign % is thought to have grown from an old Italian shorthand used by merchants, which slowly turned into two small circles and a line.
Practise the CREST Way
Mingle-Mangle
Form a meaningful word from the jumbled letters:
gtecnaerpe
a) perimeter
b) permanent
c) perception
d) percentage
Show answer
d) percentage. Only this option has a g.
Word Cookie
Insert the correct pair of letters to form a word:
p_rcent_ge
a) e, a
b) e, i
c) u, a
d) a, a
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a) e, a. Perfect has the same start, and package the same close.
Spell-o-Spell
Choose the correctly spelt word:
a) subtracton
b) decimel
c) percentage
d) multiplacation
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c) percentage. The slips are in decimal, multiplication and subtraction, each one letter away from the right form.
Word Cookie
Find the misspelt word in the sentence:
Neha scored a high percentage in her geograpy test.
a) scored
b) geograpy
c) test
d) percentage
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b) geograpy. Geography closes on the graphy of biography, so an h has gone missing.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. If 15 out of 30 pupils wear glasses, how much is that?
a) 15 per cent
b) 50 per cent
c) 25 per cent
d) 30 per cent
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b) 50 per cent
2. On which test did Meena score the highest percentage?
a) 7 out of 10
b) 45 out of 50
c) 16 out of 20
d) 30 out of 40
Show answer
b) 45 out of 50
