Percent of a Number
A bookstore carries 60 magazines. 30% of the magazines are women's magazines. How many women's magazines does the bookstore carry?
18
Joe bought a shirt for $15 with a 6% sales tax. How much was the tax on the shirt?
$0.90
What is the discount on a $30 item with a 25% discount.
$7.50
You earn salary and commissions. You earn $10/hour and you work 30 hours. You earn 5% commissions and your sales are $6000. What is your total earnings?
$600
What is the percent increase from 5 cups to 8 cups?
60%
A baseball pitcher won 80% of the games he pitched. If he pitched 35 games, then how many games did he win?
28
What is the total cost of a baseball bat priced at $110 with 6.5% tax.
$117.15
What is the discount when Kenny bought a $990 computer with a 30% discount.
$297
You earn 0.5% in commission. You had $40,000 in sales. What did you earn?
$200
Yesterday your bus ride to school took 8 minutes. Today because of the snow, the bus ride took 10 minutes. What is the percent increase from yesterday to today?
25%
Zanna completed a grammar worksheet. Of the 50 questions, Zanna got 70% correct. How many questions did Zanna get correct?
35
What would be the tip for a $55 bill if you were giving a 20% tip.
$11
What is the sale price for an item regularly $65 with a 15% discount.
$55.25
You take out a loan for $10,000 at 6% interest for 3 years. What is the amount of interest you pay back after 3 years.
$1800
Last quarter, 75 students had perfect attendance. This quarter, only 60 had perfect attendance. What is the percent decrease from last quarter to this quarter?
20%
Jane got an 80% on her math test that had 20 problems. How many questions did she get incorrect?
4
What is the total amount paid for a video game that costs $59.99 with 7% tax.
$64.19
What is the sale price for an item costing $85.50 with a 20% discount.
$68.40
Jeff has been doing much better after starting a new strategy. His strategy was to sell cars to his friends and family. But Jeff has recently realized that he doesn't have any more friends or family to sell cars to. Jeff went back to look at his last 6 months of sales. If he takes out all of his friends and family, he has only sold 4 cars for a total of $36,000. If Jeff makes a 2% commission, how much did he make on customers that weren't his family or friends?
$720
Adding cheese to a McDonald's Quarter Pounder increases the calorie count from 600 to 690. What is the percent increase of calories?
15%
A jar is filled with blue and yellow buttons. If the jar has a total of 500 buttons and 54% of the buttons are blue. how many yellow buttons are in the jar?
230
3 people go to a restaurant. Their food and drinks total to be $45.60. There is a 5% tax and they would like to leave a 25% tip. How much are they going to pay in all?
$59.85
The percent of discount on an item that was $68 and is now $40.80.
20% or 25% or 30% or 40%
40%
You take out a loan for $60,000 at 3% interest for 7 years. What is the total amount you pay the bank at the end?
$72,600
The price of a video game was marked down from $70.00 to $56.00. What was the percent of discount?
20%