Fractions/Decimals to Percentages
What is 8% as a decimal?
0.08
There are 25 girls, 18 boys, and 7 adults on a bus. What percentage of the people on the bus are adults?
14% of the people are adults
If there are 80 apples in a basket, and you want to find out what 25% of the apples are, how many apples is that?
20 apples
What is 8% as a fraction in simplest form?
2/25
Ben, Ming, and Samy shared $180. Ben received $45, Ming received $63, and Samy received the rest. What percentage of the money did Samy receive?
She received $72 or 40% of the money.
If a class has 50 students, and 20% of them are absent, how many students are absent?
10 students are absent
What is 4.7 as a percentage
0.047%
What is 2% as a fraction in its simplest form?
1/50
Duncan spent $480 on a television set and had $320 left. What percentage of his money did he spend on the television set?
He spent 60% of his money on the television set.
A store is offering a 15% discount on a $200 watch. How much money will you save?
30$
When do we move the decimal 2 places to the right? Why are we doing this?
To change a number to a percent. We do this because we are multiplying the number by 100.
What is 467% as a decimal?
4.67
400 students were asked to choose their favorite games. 26% of them chose baseball, 12% basketball, 10% volleyball, and the rest chose soccer. How many students chose soccer?
208
You scored 80 out of 100 on a test. What percentage is this?
80%
2/5 as a percentage
40%
What is 0.5% as a fraction in simplest form and as a decimal?
1/200 and 0.005
I averaged 80% on 2 tests. Both tests were out of 50 points. I got 42 points on my first test. How many points did I get on my second test?
38 points
A bakery produces 500 loaves of bread each day. If 60% of the bread is sold before noon, how many loaves of bread are sold before noon?
300 loaves of bread were solved