Grade 7 Mathematics – Money Quiz

1. what is the percentage of the buying price?

2. How do we obtain profit ?

3. What is the profit did Onyango made after selling goods at sh250 which he had bought for sh220?

4. Gabriel bought a car for sh800.He later sold it for sh 650.Did he make a loss or a profit and by how much?

5. Kingori bought goods worth sh25000.He later sold goods for sh28000.What percentage profit did he make?

6. Waithaka bought a shirt for sh1500.He later sold the shirt for sh 1800.What percentage profit did he make?

7. Chali bought a mattress for sh800.She later sold the mattress for sh700.Calculate the loss she made.

8. Chali bought a mattress for sh1000.She later sold the mattress for sh700.Calculate the percentage loss she made.

9. Abdi sold a jacket for sh 1800.If he made a 10% loss,how much had he bought the jacket?

10. Chali bought a mattress for sh800.He later sold the mattress for sh1000.Calculate the profit he made.

11. Chali bought a mattress for sh800.She later sold the mattress for sh1000.Calculate the percentage profit she made.

12. The marked price of a shirt was sh2000.Kagwe bought it at sh1500.What was the discount?

13. The marked price of a shirt was sh2000.Kagwe bought it at sh1500.What was the percentage discount?

14. The marked price of a shirt was sh200.Kagwe bought it at a discount sh10.How much did he pay for the shirt?

15. The marked price of a watch was sh2000.A customer bought it after being allowed a discount of sh200.What was the percentage discount?

16. Esther paid sh1200 for a radio after she was allowed a discount of 20%.How much was the marked price?

17. Esther paid for a skirt whose marked price was sh1200 after she was allowed a discount of 20%.How much did she pay for the skirt?

18. Wanjugu bought 25 metres of material at sh.30 per metre. she used the material to make articles for sale .Each article required 1.25m.lf two of the articles she made were spoilt,how much profit did she make after selling all the remaining articles at sh 60 each?

19. A businesswoman bought 10bags of maize at sh220 each .she paid sh10 per bag for transport. she later put the maize in 9 larger bags and sold each bag at sh 250.How much loss did she make?

20. Wanja bought fruits which were being sold at 3 fruit for 2.00.she sold them at 3 fruits at sh 3.50.what profit did she make after selling 450 fruits?

21. Njoroge and Maina are fruit dealers.one day each of them bought 300 fruits at the same price .Njoroge sold his fruit at 5 fruits for sh2.Maina sold his fruits at 4 fruits for sh2 Maina made a profit of sh 20, what loss did Njoroge make?

22. A tray contain 30 eggs .The buying price for a tray of egg is 48.00 and the selling price of one egg is 1.80. Mwamburi bought 3trays of eggs . 12 eggs got broken .He sold all the remaining eggs. What loss did he make?

23. If a shopkeeper sells a shirt for sh 450, he makes a 10% loss. find how much he should sell the shirt to make a 20% profit

24. A vendor spent sh 100 to buy fruits as follows: 36 mangoes ,40 oranges,48 bananas. She then sold the fruits as follows: 1 mango for sh 1.00 2 orange for sh 3.00 4 bananas for sh 5.00 how much profit did she make?

25. A shopkeeper bought 36 glasses at sh 45 each. Ten glasses got broken. He sold the remaining ones at sh 50 each .What loss did he make?

26. Kibet bought a radio for sh .2800. he later sold it making a 20% loss.. for how much did he sell it?

27. Mwenje and Kiraitu buy and sell bananas .one day each of them bought 900 bananas for the same price .Mwenje sold each banana for sh .1 which Kiraitu sold his at sh 4.00. If Kiraitu made a loss of 20, how much profit did Mwenje make?

28. In one season Mbaya hired one hectare of land for sh 5000. He showed 3 bags of wheat which he had bought for sh 1200 each .He also spent sh 2000 for ploughing ,sh 1000 for sowing ,sh 3400 for fertilizers and sh 2000 for harvesting .He harvested 60 bags of wheat which he sold for sh 900 per bag what did Mbaya make from cultivation of wheat that season?

29. A hawker bought 100 orange at sh 5.00 each . Twenty five oranges got spoilt and she sold the remaing orange at sh 6.50. each .What loss did he make?

30. Nyakundi sold a radio for sh 7200 making 20% profit .For how much had he bought the radio?

31. A fruit vendor bought 150 pineapples at sh 80 for every 5 pineapples .He sold them at sh 24 each .How much profit did he make?

32. A vegetable vendor spent sh 150 in buying 24 kg carrots .16 kg cabbages and 20 kg tomatoes. He also spent sh 10 on transporting .He sold the carrots at sh 2.00 per kilogram and tomatoes at sh 4.00 per kilogram.What was his loss per cent

33. Halima made a profit of 25% after selling a dress for sh 500 and a 20 % loss after selling a pair of shoes for sh 100 . what was the total cost for the dress and the pair of shoes

34. A book destributor buys book from publisher at a price which is 40% less than the marked price .What profit does the distributor make on a book marked at sh 90

35. A tray contains 30 eggs. A kiosk own bought 5 trays at sh 150 each.The eggs in to trays got broken he then sold the remaining eggs at sh 6 per egg what loss did he make?

36. motiso bought two cartoons of biscuits each contain15 packet he paid sh 300 for biscuits he then sold each packet for sh 25 . What percentage did he make?

37. moliro bought a car and later sold it 75,000 making a loss of 25% . at what price had he bought the car?

38. A fruit vendor spent sh 160 to buy 28banana ,60 banana and 14 orange he paid 40 for transport .During transportation,9 tomatoes and 1 banana got spoilt. He then sold the remaining fruits as follows: 1 banana for sh 3 3 tomatoes for sh 5 1 orange for sh 6 what was the percentage profit ?

39. Kantai bought 200 chicken whose average weight was 1.5 kg .The buying price per kilogram was sh 150.He then sold each chicken for sh 250. What percentage profit did he make?

40. A shopkeeper bought 5 trays of eggs at sh 120 per tray ten eggs broke and she sold the rest at sh 6 per agg .if tray hold 30egg . what percentage profit did he make?

41. A shopkeeper bought a shirt for sh 300 .he then sold it for sh.360 after giving a discount of 10% . what percentage profit would he have made if no discount was given?

42. A shopkeeper bought 30 eggs he then sold egg at sh 6 making a profit of 20% . how much had he paid for the egg?

43. Mutiso paid sh.330 for an item after the shopkeeper gave him a12% discount. What was the marked price of the radio?

44. Olang' borrowed sh.54000 from a bank which charged interest at the rate of 18% p.a .He repaid the whole loan after 8 months. How much did the pay back?

45. Olang' borrowed sh.54000 from a bank which charged interest at the rate of 18% p.a .He repaid the whole loan after 8 months. How much did the pay back?

46. The cash price of a microwave is sh. 18000. The hire purchase price of the microwave is 20% more than the cash price .Barno bought it on hire purchase terms by paying 40 % of the hire purchase price as the deposit and the barance equal Monthly in stallments of sh 1620. How many installments did he pay?

47. Salim deposited sh 25000 in a bank which paid compound interest at rate of 10% per annum. If he withdraws all his money after 12 years,how much interest did his money gain?

48. Kamaru bought bananas in group of 20 at sh 20 per group .He cut them into smaller groups of 5 bananas each and sold them at sh 10 per group . What percentage profit did he make?

49. A shopkeeper bought 3 tray of eggs at sh 150 per tray . on the shop , he realized 20% of the eggs were broken . He sold the rest at sh72 per dozen . How much loss did he make ?

50. A salesperson earns a basic salary of sh 7500 per month. He is also paid a 5% commission on all sales above sh 30,000.In a certain mo his total earning were sh. 14250. What was his total sales for that month?

51. Maranga paid sh ,400 for a bicycle after he was given a 12 % discount .James bought the same item from a different shop and the same item from a different shop and was given a 15% . How much more than James did Maranga pay for the bicycle?

52. If you have 500 Kenyan Shillings (KES), how many cents do you have?

53. How many 50 KES coins make up 250 KES?

54. If one mango costs 20 KES, how much will 3 mangoes cost?

55. What is the value of 5 fifty-cent coins in total?

56. If you have 300 KES and spend 150 KES, how much money do you have left?

57. What is the value of 1,000 cents in KES?

58. If you exchange 500 KES for dollars at a rate of 100 KES to 1 USD, how many USD will you get?

59. How many 5 KES coins make up 25 KES?

60. If a pencil costs 7 KES, how much will 10 pencils cost?

61. What is the value of 3 twenty-cent coins in total?