Percent Word Problems
One baseball team won 6 games throughout their entire season. Of all their games this season, the team won 30% of them. Given this, how many games in total did this baseball team play?
20 games
Identify the Percent:
At a construction site for a mall, there are 32 painters. Of these painters, 75% of them paint the interior of the mall. How many painters are painting the exterior?
75%
10% of 20 = ______
2
2/4
1/2
You have 9/3 pounds of strawberries, each smoothie you make uses 1/6 of a pound. How many smoothies can you make?
18 Smoothies
Joan went to her local zoo that featured 11 bear exhibits. If the zoo features 20 exhibits in total, then what percent of the zoo's exhibits feature bears?
55%
Identify the whole:
For one History test, Sally had to answer 25 questions. Of these questions, Sally answered 60% of them correctly. How many questions did Sally correctly answer on her test?
25
25% of 100 = _________
25
6/8
3/4
A bag of chips weighing 3/4 of a pound is split equally among 4 people. What fraction of a pound does each person get?
3/16 of a pound
Kevin bought donuts for his class. 60% of the donuts were chocolate. If there were 30 chocolate donuts, how many donuts did Kevin buy?
50 donuts
Identify the part:
There are 18 students in a class and 9 of these students passed their Algebra test. What percentage of these students passed their test?
9
30 out of 40 = ______ %
75%
16/24
2/3
Jackson had $25.10 in his wallet. He bought lunch at Burger King that cost $6.38. How much will he have left?
$18.72
At a department store, a sweater costs $60. If you have a coupon for 30% off, what price will you pay for the sweater?
$42
Identify the whole:
Joan decided to look at new and used cars. Joan found a new car for $30000. Typically a used car goes for 60% of a new car. What price would a used car be?
$30000
33% of 900 = _______
297
45/81
5/9
A bakery bought 32 pounds of vanilla frosting. If 3/4 of a pound is needed to frost a cake, how many cakes can the bakery frost?
128/3 (or 42.66) cakes
Maya bought a sweater at a discount of 25%. She saved $18. How much did she pay for the sweater?
$54
Find the whole:
6 of the 24 girls on Graham Middle School's soccer team are 7th grade students. Find the percentage of seventh graders on the team.
24
70% of __________ = 350
500
120/540
2/9
You have 6 and 2/5 cups of Takis. If 10 people share them equally, how many cups will each person get?
32/50 or 16/25 cups of Takis per person