Use a proportion to answer the following: What percent of 45 is 9.
20%
100
Write 30% as a decimal
0.30
100
Use the percent equation to answer the question.
What number is 60% of 35?
21
100
The population of a town in 2004 was 12,000. The population of the
town in 1994 was 10,800. What percent of the 2004 population is the
1994 population?
10,800/12,000 = p/100
90%
200
Write 13/20 as a percent.
65%
200
Use a proportion to answer the following: What number is 20% of 15?
3
200
Write 0.09% as a decimal.
0.0009
200
Use the percent equation to answer the question.
What percent of 175 is 21?
12%
200
A bag contains a total of 25 marbles. The bag contains white, yellow, and red marbles. You randomly select one marble from the bag. The probability that you select a red marble is 16%. How many red marbles are in the bag?
a = 0.16(25)
a = 4 red marbles
300
A basketball player makes 21 of her 25 free throw attempts during practice. What percent of her free throws did the player make?
84%
300
Use a proportion to answer the following: 81 is 90% of what number?
90
300
Write 0.656 as a percent.
65.6%
300
Use the percent equation to answer the question.
51 is 75% of what number?
68
300
At the concession stand of a school football game, sandwiches cost $1.50 and a bottle of water costs $.90. The school sells 40 sandwiches and 80 bottles of water.
What percent of the concessions sold was bottles of water?
80/120 = p/100
p = 66.6%
400
In a shipment of watermelons to the grocery store, 1/50 of the watermelons are damaged. What percent of the watermelons are damaged?
2%
400
You work with 3 other students on a project for science class. Your group earns 329 points, or 94%, of the total possible points. How many points are possible for the project?
329/b = 94/100
b = 350 points possible
400
Write 2.45 as a percent.
245%
400
A salesperson earns a weekly salary of $175 plus a 4% commission on the sales of bicycles made during the week. If the salesperson’s bicycle sales for the week total $4500, how much did the salesperson earn for the week?
175 + 0.04(4500)
$355.00
400
Due to a membership drive for a public television station, the current
membership is 125% of what it was a year ago. The current membership is 1200. How many members did the station have last year?
1200 = 1.25(b)
b = 960 members
500
There are ten cards numbered 0-9 in a bowl. If you draw one card from the bowl, what is the probability that the card you choose is a multiple of 3? (Write your answer as a fraction, percent and decimal)
3/10 = 30% = 0.30
500
There are 285 people who attend a fitness center. A yoga class contains 60% of the people who attend the fitness center. How many people are in the yoga class?
a/285 = 60/100
a = 171 people
500
A town has 24 radio stations. Of those stations, 3/8 play country music. What percent of the town’s radio stations play country music?
37.5%
500
Your friend paid $17 for a shirt. This amount was 85% of the total amount your friend spent at the clothing store. How much money did your friend spend?
17 = 0.85(b)
b = $20.00
500
You forgot the first 2 digits of your friend’s 7-digit phone number. You
know that the first digit is 1 or 2, and the second digit is an even number or zero. If you guess the phone number, what is the probability that you will be correct? Write your answer as a percent.