Converting Fractions, Decimals, and Percents
Finding Percentages
Word Problems
100

Write the percent as a fraction in simplest form:

32%

8/25

100

What is 25% of 80?

20

100

Yesterday, 5% of the 120 sixth graders at a school were late. How many sixth graders were late?

6 sixth graders

200

Write the fraction as a percent:

1 3/5

160%

200

What is 91% of 60?

54.6

200

Your family drives 126 miles from Key West to the Florida mainland. About 15% of this distance is spent on bridges. How many miles of bridges do you travel over?

18.9 miles

300

Which number is greater?

1/2 , 0.54

0.54

300

65% of what number is 39?

60

300

Before a century plant dies, a tall flower stem grows from its center. The flower stem grows for only two months to reach 40% of a height of 25 feet. How tall is the flower stem after two months?

10 feet

400

Which number is greater?

2/3 , 66%

2/3

400

42 is 8% of what number?

525

400

You take a test with 32 questions on it. You answer 24 questions correctly. What percent of the questions do you answer correctly?

75%

500

Order the numbers from least to greatest (in their original form):

15/16 , 90%, 0.925, 7/8 , 0.93

7/8 , 90%, 0.925, 0.93, 0.9375

500

72 is what percent of 45?

160%

500

Your class is going on a field trip. Twenty-four students have turned in their permission slips so far. This is 80% of the students in the class. How many students are in the class?

30 students

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