A jacket is marked down 20%, then the sale price is taxed 6%. The original price is $75. What is the final cost?
Reasoning strategy
Apply the discount first, then apply tax to the discounted price.
Difficulty Practice Guide
Easy Grade 7 Percents Word Problems
This page shows what easy practice should demand for grade 7 percents word problems. The goal is not a larger worksheet. The goal is to make the student's reasoning visible enough to choose the next better problem.
What Changes At This Difficulty
Build confidence with the core story structure before adding extra traps.
Expected structure: 2-3 step problem solving.
Vocabulary load: high with minimal distractors.
Reasoning depth: at least 2 relationship layers.
Student Work Signals
A good easy problem should expose the bottleneck
MathRoutine watches for whether the student understood the situation, wrote a useful setup, handled the calculation, and answered the exact question asked.
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identify the unknown quantity
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choose the first operation or equation
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check the answer against the question sentence
Sample Problems
A student answered 36 questions correctly on a 45-question quiz. On a retake, the student answered 42 correctly. By how many percentage points did the score improve?
Reasoning strategy
Find each percent score, then compare the percentages.
Why This Matters
The paid value is diagnosis, not answer lookup
Basic gives repeated targeted practice. Pro becomes useful when the student needs help understanding wording, recovering the setup, or seeing the same misconception return across attempts.
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