Word Problems
54% of the students in your class have moved at least twice. Convert this percentage into a decimal.
What is 0.54?
What does w stand for?
What is whole.
What is 7% of 26?
What is 18.2.
Harry bakes 20 cupcakes. 14 of them are chocolate. What percent of the cupcakes are vanilla?
What is: 70%.
What does p stand for in formulas
What is Percent
You can run 4 laps in 10 minutes. Your friend can run 6 laps in 15 minutes. Do these rates form a proportion?
What is yes.
What is a proportion?
What is an equation stating that the values of two ratios are equivalent.
What is 190% of 72
What is 136.8
Jerry is planting 50 flowers in his garden.
14% of the flowers are roses. How many tulips?
100% - 14%= 86%
a/50 = 86/100
4300 = a(100)
/100 /100
43 = a
What is 43 tulips in Jerry's garden.
What is the fraction formula for proportions.
What is a/w × p/100
On a social studies test you get 43/50 points possible. Write a decimal and percent to represent your score.
What is 86%
What is .86
what does a stand for?
What is part.
What is the next number on the ratio table?
12 24 36 60 108
9 18 27 45
What is 81.
14/49=56/x
what is 196
What is the equation formula for proportions?
What is a = p × w
Bob was driving home and he saw a yellow light. He slowed down from 60 miles per hour to 20 miles per hour. What is the percent of change?
What is 33.3%.
What does a unit rate do?
What is compares a quantity to one unit of another quantity.
Find the unit rate: If your team gets 3 major injuries per football season, how many injuries should your team get across your high school career.
What is 12 injuries
24/60=x/90
what is 36
What is the formula for this word problem? Solve the formula as well.
There were 35 liters of punch in a bowl. Annie took 40% of the punch.
a = p x w
a = .4 x 35
a = 14 liters
This month the band has 6 musicians. This is a 50% increase from the number of musicians in the band last month. How many musicians were in the band last month?
What is 4 musicians.
In your own words, define percent of change.
What is the percent that a quantity changes from the original amount.
37 is 43% of what number
round to nearest 100th percent
12/14=16/x
what is 17.5
Jim has 2 jugs of milk. He drains a quarter of one.
State the equation formula you can use to find the percentage of the milk drained, as well as saying what each variable would be replaced with.
a = p x w
a=1/4
P=?
w=2