Percent - Decimal
8% as a fraction
What is 8/100 = 2/25
50% of 36
What is 18
There are 90 marbles in a bin and 40% of them are red. How many marbles are red?
88 x 0.25 = 22 marbles
10% of 50
What is 5
Taco Bell has more than 7000 locations in the United States. California has 700 of those 7000 stores. About what percent of Taco Bell's U.S. stores are located in California?
700 is 10% of 7000
0.34 as percent
What is 34%
20% of 70
What is 14
A basketball team takes 25 foul shots during a game and makes 14 of them. What percent is this?
14/25 is equal to about 56/100 which equals 56%.
40% as a fraction
What is 40/100= 2/5
0.9 as percent
What is 90%
30% of 40
What is 12
A soccer team has won 7/20 of the soccer matches. What percentage have they lost? (assume no games ended in a tie)
7/20 is equal to the decimal 0.35 which is 35%. They won 35% of their games. To find out the percent that they have lost, subtract 35% from 100% to get 65%.
55% of 32
What is 17.6
In a bag of M & M's, about 25% of the candies are blue. In a bag of 550 candies, about how many are blue?
550 x 0.25 = 137.5, but it is unreasonable to have 0.5 of a candy. ABOUT 138 candies in the bag are blue.