

A worksheet on solving percent problems using proportions. The method of cross multiplication is used to solve linear equations in one variable that are written as proportions. There are 22 problems and detailed solutions are included.
Are you looking for a comprehensive, no-prep resource to help your students master finding parts, wholes, and percentages? This Solving Percent Problems Using Proportions Worksheet features 22 carefully structured questions designed to build absolute confidence using the percentage proportion method!
This multi-page assignment is perfect for daily practice, independent classwork, homework, revision, or targeted maths intervention. Just print and pass it out!
What is Included in This Resource?
This comprehensive practice packet is structured to give students deep mastery over all three types of percentage problems:
- All Three Percentage Variations Covered: Students get balanced practice finding the part (e.g., Find 15% of 400), finding the percentage (e.g., Express 12 as a percentage of 60), and finding the missing whole/number (e.g., 20% of a number is 14. Find the number).
- Generous Workspace: The student pages are cleanly formatted with dedicated boxes for each of the 22 questions, leaving plenty of room for students to set up their proportions and show their cross-multiplication work.
- Complete Solution Key: Fully worked-out, step-by-step proportional answers are included for all 22 problems, making marking incredibly fast or allowing for student self-checking!
Curriculum & Educational Standards Covered
- Key Stage 3 (KS3) Maths: Aligns perfectly with the National Curriculum requirements for ratios, proportional reasoning, and calculating percentages of quantities.
- GCSE Mathematics (Foundation): Excellent for reinforcing fraction-to-percentage conversions and basic proportional relationships across all UK exam boards (AQA, Edexcel, OCR). It ensures students can confidently manipulate percentages before moving on to harder compound interest or reverse percentage problems.
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