Percent Applications
5D Process
Order of Operations
Probability
Possible Outcomes
100
Ben earns $12,800 a year. About 15% is taken out for taxes. How much is taken out for taxes?
10% = 1,280 so 5%=640 15%=1,920
100
A box of fruit has three times as many nectarines as grapefruit. Together there are 36 pieces of fruit. How many pieces of each type of fruit are there?
Grapefruit =9 Nectarines =27
100
What is -9+5-3+(-20) - 13
-40
100
If you have a standard deck of cards, what is the probability you do NOT get an ace on the first card you pull?
48/52=12/13
100
There are 4 toppings for pizza and 3 different kinds of sauce. How many possible outcomes are there?
12
200
Donovan took a math test and got 35 correct and 10 incorrect answers. What was the percentage of correct answers? (Round to the nearest hundredth)
35/45 =0.77 repeating = 77.78%
200
Tom is five years older than his brother Sam. The sum of their ages is 51. What are their ages?
Sam is 23 and Tom is 28
200
What is (1/4)^2 + (9/3)-(-7)
10 1/8
200
A spinner is divided in twelve equal sections. Four of them are green, six of them are red and the rest are blue. What's the probability you spin on either a red or green?
4/12 + 6/12 = 10/12 or 5/6
200
Maria has 2 pairs of shorts, 10 tank tops, and 3 pairs of sandals. How many outfits can she make?
2 * 10 * 3 = 60 outfits
300
There are 28 students in a class. Sixteen of those students are men. What percent of the class are women? (Round to the nearest tenth)
16/28 = 0.5714 = 57.1%
300
The perimeter of a rectangle is 120 feet. If the length of the rectangle is ten feet more than the width, what are the dimensions (length and width) of the rectangle? Use the 5D Process to organize your work.
The length is 60 The width is 50
300
What is (-10*-8)-(-7) + 15/3
92
300
A bag contains 2 green, 2 red and 2 blue marbles. What is the probability of choosing a red marble, a blue marble and a green? The marbles are NOT replaced each time.
2/6 * 2/5 * 2/4 =8/120 = 2/30
300
Mario went to make a sandwich for lunch. He has roast beef, tuna, chicken and ham. He also has lettuce, tomato, onion and pickles for toppings. His options for condiments are honey mustard, mayo, spicy mustard and ranch spread. How many different ways could he make his sandwich?
4 * 4 * 5 =80 possible ways
400
A student answered 86 problems on a test correctly and received a grade 98%. How many problems were on the test, if all the problems were worth the same number of points? (Round to the nearest whole number)
About 88 questions
400
Farmer Fran has 38 barnyard animals, consisting of only chickens and goats. If these animals have 116 legs, how many of each type of animal are there?
Farmer Fran has 20 goats and 18 chickens.
400
What is (6-2)^2 + (-9-(-9)) -15
1
400
A deck of cards has 6 yellow, 6 green and 3 orange cards. You pick 3 cards from the deck. Each card is returned to the deck after each one is chosen. What’s the probability that you choose 3 orange cards in a row?
3/15 * 3/15 * 3/15 = 0.008 or 8/1000 or 1/125
400
Martin has 2 types of lettuce, 4 types of meat, 5 types of dressing, 10 toppings and 3 types of crutons. How many salads can he make?
2 * 4 * 5 * 10 * 3=1,200 possibilities
500
Megan shot 600 baskets and made 400 of them. What percent of the baskets did she MISS? (round to tenths place)
33.3%
500
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Free space-500 to all players
500
What is -8+-4(2+3) -(15/5)
-31
500
When performing an experiment to see how many tails you land on when flipping a coin, what TYPE of probability is it? (Hint: two types)
Experimental probability
500
I have 8 shirts, 9 blazers, 14 pairs of pants, 10 shoes and 5 pairs of socks. How many outfits can I make?
50,400
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