Percent of a Number
What is 60% of 125?
75
Emily made 9 out of 12 shots during her basketball game. What percent of shots did Emily make?
75%
A shirt normally cost $30 but is on sale for 20% off. How much will the new cost of the shirt be?
$24
Carl bought an airline ticket for $375. Two weeks ago, the ticket cost $300. What was the percent increase?
25%
What is 20% of 60?
12
During bowling practice, Marley rolled 14 strikes out of 70 attempts. What percent of Marley's attempts were strikes?
20%
An auto insurance company pays 12% commission to its agents for each new insurance policy they sell. How much commission does an agent make on a $1,000 policy.
$120
Lisa's softball team won 8 games last month and 10 this month. What was the percent change in games the team won?
25%
A zookeeper predicted that the weight of a newborn lion would be 2.8 pounds. When the zoo's lion gave birth, the newborn weighed 3.5 pounds. What is the zookeeper's percent error?
20%
What is 7% of 30?
2.1
Camila makes 2 out of 5 shots attempted during her basketball game. What percent of the shots did she miss?
60%
Many states have a meal tax that is proportional to the total spent on food and beverages. In one state, the meal tax is 8.44%. How much tax will a customer pay if the food and beverages total $54?
$4.56
Last year an alligator was 32 inches long. This year the same alligator is now 38 inches long. What is the percent increase in the alligators length?
18.75%
Jason predicted that 227 students would attend the school dance. The actual number was 250. What was the percent error of Jason's prediction?
9.2%
What is 0.3% of 60?
0.18
What percent is 17 out of 40?
42.5%
Jane earns 5.5% commission on the selling price of each home she sells. Se earned $9,020 in commission on the sale of a home. What was the selling price of the home?
$164,000
Last year a website had 40,000 visitors and this year, it had 37,000 visitors. What is the percent change in the number of visitors to the website from last year to this year?
7.5%
Thomas estimated that there were 125 people in the audience. There were actually 137 people. What is the percent error?
8.76%
What is 160% of 20?
32
Out of 350 solitaire games that Jay played, he won 154 times. What percent of the games did Jay win?
44%
Nadia is a stokebroker. She earns 4% commission when she sells stocks. Last week, she earned $288 in commission. What was the total amount of her sales?
$7,200
Last week gasoline cost $3.499 per gallon. This week the cost is $3.079. What is the percent change?
12% decrease
A faulty scale displayed the weight of the package as 14.1 pounds. The exact weight was 13.6 pounds. What is the percent error?
3.68%