Convert fractions or percents to decimals
Find percentages of whole numbers
Find tip and sales tax of a purchase
Other Percent Problems (LEAP)
Interest
100
Convert 1/2 to a decimal.
What is 0.50
100

This is what you get when you find 1% of 100.

What is 1

100
What is the total including tip of a meal that costs $13. You pay a 20% tip.
$15.60
100
40% of students at Landry want to move out of New Orleans when they grow up. If there are 500 students at Landry, how many want to leave New Orleans?
200
100

This is the equation used to solve Simple Interest problems.

What is I = Prt?

200
How do you convert a percent to a decimal?
What is move the decimal to the left two places.
200

300% of 12

What is 36?

200

Find the cost including tax for a snack that costs $2.45. The tax rate is 8.5%. Round to the nearest cent.

$2.66

200
Ms. Owens is in debt. Last month her debt was $1,000. This month her debt is 167% of that. What is her debt this month in dollars?
$1,670
200

The Interest earned on a $25,000 principle at .12% for 3 years.

What is $900?

300
Convert 23% to a decimal.
What is 0.23
300
the number of students that graduate from high school out of every 20 students if 60% of students in Louisiana graduate.
What are 12 students?
300
Mr. McMorris bought a new iPad for $950.13. Tax on the iPad is 11%. What is the cost with tax?
$1,054.50
300
0.5% of all statistics are true. If you have a list of 1,400 statistics. How many are true?
7 statistics are true
300

The Interest earned on $12,500 at 3% for 2 years.

What is $750?

400
Convert 8.5% to a decimal.
What is 0.085
400
Mr. Gleghorn's cell phone bill was $50 last month. This month Verizon raised his bill. The new bill is 132% of last month's. This is the cost of the new bill.
What is $66
400
D'Jonique goes out to eat at New Orleans Burger Company and gets a burger, fries, and milk shake for 13.27. She tips 15% and tax is 8.5%. Name the amount of the tax AND the amount of the tip. Do not list the total amount.
Tip is $1.99, tax is $1.13.
400

A store paid $75.29 for a couch. To make a profit, the store charged 270% of the cost. What is the price tag the store puts on the couch?

$203.28

400

The amount of principle in a bank if it earned $2.50 at a .05% interest rate after 5 years.

What is $1,000.

500
Convert 0.5% to a decimal.
What is 0.005
500
The candy lady paid $0.75 for each pack of Now and Later. She made a profit by charging 125% of what she paid. This is how much she charged for each pack of Now and Later.
What is $0.94
500
Benjamin Bannaker, the famous mathemetician, went out to a fancy dinner. The dinner cost $89.67. He tipped the waiter 20% and tax was 5%. What was the total including tip and tax?
$115.41
500
Josh flips a quarter 20 times. It falls on tails 30% of the time. How many times does it fall on heads?
14 heads
500

The time in years it took to earn $50 on a principle of $5,000 at a rate of 0.01%.

What is 100 years.

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