The Percent Equation
Identify the percent equation.
What is, a = pw
What percent of 15 is 12?
(HINT: set up your proportion, part (is) over the whole (of))
What is 80%
Write 8% as a decimal and a fraction.
What is .08 and 8/100 (2/25 if simplified)
When is pi day?
what is March 14
Order the numbers from least to greatest
66.1%, 0.66, 0.667
0.66, 66.1%, .667
What number is 24% of 50? What is the equation?
a = .24 x 50
What is 12.
What number is 80% of 60?
What is 48
Write 5/8 as a decimal and a percent.
What is .625 and 62.5%
.04 is what percent of 25?
what is 0.16%
On a math test this week you received a
15/24 write your score as a percent AND a decimal.
14 is what percent of 70?
14 = p x 70
p = 20%
.1% of what number is 4?
What is 4000
Write 1/6 as a decimal and a percent.
What is .16 (repeating) and 16.6% (repeating)
Where did Ms. Dorney go to college?
what is UMass Amherst
0.2 is what percent of 16?
what is 1.25%
If the cost of lunch was 27.50 and you tip 18%, how much do you pay for lunch?
a = .18 x 27.50
a = 4.95
you tip $4.95 so total you pay = $32.45
An arctic woolly-bear caterpillar lives for 7 years and spends 90% of its life frozen. How many days of its life is the arctic woolly-bear frozen?
(HINT: the question is asking for DAYS, so you should solve in DAYS)
What is 'about' 2,300 days.
Write .18 as a percent and fraction.
What is 18% and 18/100 (9/50 if simplified)
Who is known as the "King of Pop"
Who is Michael Jackson
You are making 28 cookies for a committee. You complete 75% of these on Monday. How many do you have left to complete on Tuesday?
what is 7 more cookies
Arielle earned $56 last week and spent $21 going to the movies. What percent of the money earned did Arielle spend at the movies?
(USE PERCENT EQUATION. REMEMBER WE HAVE TO CONVERT THE PERCENT...)
37.5%
1/2 is 70% of what number?
What is 'about' .71
An astronaut spends 53% of his day working, .1 of the day eating, 3/10 of the day sleeping and the rest of the day reading. Order these events from least to greatest.
(HINT: convert all of them to the same form)
exercising --> eating --> sleeping --> reading
How many bones do adult humans have?
What is 206 bones
Of the 60 students in the 7th grade 70% own a pet. How many DO NOT own a pet?
what is 18 students DO NOT own a pet