Mental Math
Find percentages of whole numbers
Find tip and sales tax of a purchase
Other Percent Problems (LEAP)
100
This is 12% of 30

What is 3.6?

100
This is what you get when you find 1% of 100.
What is 1
100
What is the total including tip of a meal that costs $13. You pay a 20% tip.
$15.60
100

40% of students at Landry High School want to get a part-time job. If there are 500 students at Landry, how many want to get a job?

200

200

One of three ways to find 1% of a number.

What is (1) move the decimal to the left two places, (2) multiply by 0.01 or (3) divide by 100

200
300% of 12
What is 36?
200
Find the cost including tax for a snack that costs $2.45. The tax rate is 8.5%. Round to the nearest cent.
$2.66
200
Ms. Owens is in debt. Last month her debt was $1,000. This month her debt is 167% of that. What is her debt this month in dollars?
$1,670
300
60 is 75% of this number

What is 80?

300

the number of students that take Spanish out of every 20 students if 60% of students take Spanish.

What are 12 students?

300

Morris bought a new iPad for $950.13. Tax on the iPad is 11%. What is the cost including tax?

$1,054.50

300

DAILY DOUBLE!!! 0.5% of all statistics are true. If you have a list of 1,400 statistics. How many are true?

7 statistics are true

400

6% of 40

What is 2.4?

400

Mr. Glen's cell phone bill was $50 last month. This month Verizon raised his bill. The new bill is 132% of last month's. This is the cost of the new bill.

What is $66

400

Janell goes out to eat at New Orleans Burger Company and gets a burger, fries, and milkshake for $13.27. She tips 15%. Name the amount of the amount of the tip.

Tip is $1.99

400
A store paid $75.29 for a couch. To make a profit, the store charged 270% of the cost. What is the price tag the store puts on the couch?
$203.28
500

90% of 27

What is 24.3? 

500

The candy lady paid $0.75 for each pack of Skittles. She made a profit by charging 125% of what she paid. This is how much she charged for each pack of Skittles.

What is $0.94

500

DAILY DOUBLE!!! Benjamin Bannaker, the famous mathemetician, went out to a fancy dinner. The dinner cost $89.67. He tipped the waiter 20% and tax was 5%. What was the total including tip and tax?

$115.41

500

DAILY DOUBLE!!! Josh flips a quarter 20 times. It falls on tails 30% of the time. How many times does it fall on heads? 

14 heads

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