Percents
250% of 1000?
What is 2500
The ratio of apples to bananas is 2:5. If there are 12 apples how many bananas are there?
Gina earns $78.00 for working 6 hours. Asad makes 192.50 for working 14 hours. Who has the greater hourly rate of pay?
Who is Asad
Find the average of this set of data.
5,4,10,5,6
What is 6
15/5 + 25/5 + 200/10
What is 28
At a sale, a jacket is priced at $80, but it is discounted by 25%. Sarah has an additional coupon that gives her 10% off the already discounted price. What is the final price Sarah pays for the jacket?
What is $54
A 30-kg bag of fertilizer is labelled 15-20-10. This means that it contains 15% nitrogen, 20% phosphorus, and 10% potassium by weight. How many kilograms of nitrogen, phosphorus, and potassium are in the bag?
What is 4.5, 6, 3.
If Sue drives 45 minutes at 80 miles per hour, how far does she travel?
What is 60 miles.
In 12 Hockey games, the Vancouver Canucks scored the following numbers of goals: 4,4,0,2,3,3,4,1,3,0,2,4. What is the mode?
What is 4
Samantha baked a batch of cookies. She gave 1/4 of the cookies to her friend Emily and 3/8 of the remaining cookies to her brother Alex. If Samantha had a total of 32 cookies, how many cookies did Alex receive?
In a city, the population increased by 8% in the first year, decreased by 5% in the second year, and increased again by 12% in the third year. If the city's initial population was 500,000, what is the final population after all these percentage changes?
What is 575,160
Two companies are making an orange coloured paint. Company A makes the orange paint by mixing red and yellow paint in a ratio of 5:7. Company B makes the orange paint by mixing red and yellow paint in a ratio of 3:4. Which company uses a higher proportion of red paint to make the orange?
What is Company B
Daniel's yard is 10 m by 6 m. His push lawnmower can cut the grass in 15 minutes. The field behind Grace's house measures 30m by 50m. Her ride-on mower can mow the field in an hour. There is a 400-m² area between the two properties. How long will it take Daniel to mow this area? How long will it take Grace?
What is 100 minutes? What is 16 minutes?
The weather forecaster predicts that the chance of rain today is 75% in Vancouver and 20% in Penticton. What is the probability that it will rain in both cities today?
Jim has three times as many comic books as Charles. Charles has two-thirds as many comic books as Bob. Bob has 27 comic books. How many comic books does Jim have.
What is 54
Suppose 15% of x equals 20% of y. What percentage of x is y?
What is 75
In a bin at the Grocery Store, the ratio of the number of apples to the number of oranges is 1:4, and the ratio of the number of oranges to the number of lemons is 5:2. What is the ratio of the number of apples to the number of lemons?
What is 5:8
Annie and Bonnie are running laps around a 400-meter oval track. They started together, but Annie has pulled ahead because she runs 25% faster than Bonnie. How many laps will Annie have run when she first passes Bonnie?
What is 5
A circular spinner is divided into 8 equal sections, with numbers from 2-9. An arrow is attached to the centre of the spinner. The arrow is spun once. What is the probability that the arrow stops in a section containing a prime number that is odd?
Tom, Sarah and Jack are related. Jack is 1/3 of Sarah’s age and Tom is 1/4 of Sarah’s age. If Tom is five years younger than Jack, how old is Sarah?
What is 60
Suppose a>b>0 and a is x% greater than b. what is x?
Read the answer out as a formula.
What is (a-b)/b x 100
The ratio of w to x is 4:3, the ratio of y to z is 3:2, and the ratio of z to x is 1:6. What is the ratio of w:y?
16:3
Pipe A can fill a tank in 4 hours and pipe B can fill it in 6 hours. If both pipes are kept open, how long will it take for the tank to get filled?
A person starting with $64 and making 6 bets, wins three times and loses three times, the wins and losses occurring in random order. The chance for a win is equal to the chance for a loss. If each wager is for half the money remaining at the time of the bet, then the final result is a loss of ____
What is 37
If a/b + c/d= 5/6, and a/b - c/d = 1/6, find the values of a/b and c/d.
What is 1/2 and 1/3