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There are a total of 660 students in the Hackett Middle School. 297 are 8th graders. What percent of the student population are 8th graders?
45%
At Brookpark Middle School, about 25% of the students have curly hair. If there are 640 students in the school how many have curly hair?
160 students
In a class of 20 students, 15% play in the school orchestra. How many students play in the school orchestra?
3 students
On a 75-question test, Maureen answered 84% correctly. How many questions did she answer correctly?
63 questions answered correctly
Suppose 42 out of 60 people read the newspaper everyday. What percent of the people read the newspaper every day.
70%.
The Knicks played 8 games. If they lost 2 games and there were no ties, what percent of the games played did the team win.
75%
Amount of games won = 8 - 2 = 6 games
6 = % (8)
= 75%
On the first day of March, 94 of 1175 students at Brown Junior High were absent. What percent of the students were absent school?
8% were absent
Some doctors recommend that no more than 30% of a person's daily calories come from fats. Following this recommendation, if you eat a total of 2,400 calories a day, what is the maximum amount that should come from fats?
720 calories
On Saturday, 78% of the breakfast customers at Mark's restaurant ordered orange juice. If there are 150 customers at Mark's restaurant, how many ordered orange juice?
117 customers ordered orange juice
The 42 students who play wind instruments represent 75% of the students who are in band. How many students are in band?
56 students total
Last year the Midas Middle School cafeteria served pizza on 12% of the school days. If there were 175 school days, how many times was pizza served?
21 days
Julie has read 27 pages out of an eighty page book. What percent of the pages has she read?
Julie has read 33.75% of the pages
In a recent survey, 36 people, or 20% of the people surveyed, said they had never been out of the United States. How many people were surveyed?
180 people
A real-estate agent receives 3% commission on property the agent sells. What is the agent's commission for selling a house for $118,000?
$3,540
The school dance committee needs 160 balloons inflated for the dance. Zoey inflated 15% of the total number of balloons. How many balloons did Zoey inflate?
24 balloons
P = .15 (160)
= 24
A math class has studied the first 330 pages of their textbook. If this is 75% of the entire book, how many pages are in the entire book?
440 pages
The farm received a shipment of 40 plants on Wednesday. BY Friday, 82.5% of the plants had been sold. How many were sold?
33 plants
A baseball park has 40,000 seats, of which 13,040 are box seats and 18,200 are reserved seats. What percent of the seats are box seats?
32.6%
A salesman receives an 8% commission on guitar sales. If he earns $11.38 in commission, what was the total amount of his sales?
$142.25
The Jets won 56 games out of 64, What percentage of games did they win?
87.5%