IS / OF Questions
What is 10% of $40?
$4
An international company has 13,100 employees in one country. If this represents 16.7 % of the company's employees, how many employees does it have in total?
Round your answer to the nearest whole number.
78,443 employees
An item is regularly priced at $50. It is on sale for 60% off the regular price. How much (in dollars) is discounted from the regular price?
$30
The price of a technology stock has risen to $ 9.77 today. Yesterday's price was $ 9.64. Find the percentage increase. Round your answer to the nearest tenth of a percent.
1.3% increase
Felipe spent a total of $ 70 at the grocery store. Of this amount, he spent $49 on fruit. What percentage of the total did he spend on fruit?
70%
What is 75% of 200kg?
150kg
A house on the market was valued at $ 253,000. After several years, the value decreased by 7%. By how much did the house's value decrease in dollars? What is the current value of the house?
$17,710 decrease
$235,290 new price
A DVD priced at $30 has a 20% discount applied. How much is the discount and what is the sale price? (No calculator)
Discount is $6 and sale price is $24
Raina estimated the height of her office building to be 35 feet. The actual height of her office building is 36 feet. Find the absolute error and the percent error of Raina's estimate. If necessary, round your answers to the nearest tenth.
Absolute error = 1 foot
2.8% error
Suppose that an individual has a body fat percentage of 18.6 % and weighs 181 pounds. How many pounds of his weight is made up of fat? Round your answer to the nearest tenth.
33.7 pounds
In a class of 24 students, 75% of them are present. How many students are absent?
6 students are absent.
A salesperson sells $ 3000 in merchandise and earns a commission of $ 540. Find the commission rate. Write your answer as a percentage.
18%
The price of a gallon of unleaded gas has risen to $2.88 today. Yesterday's price was $2.81. Find the percentage increase. Round your answer to the nearest tenth of a percent.
2.5% increase
The wholesale price for a bookcase is $155. A certain furniture store marks up the wholesale price by 25%. Find the price of the bookcase in the furniture store.
Round your answer to the nearest cent, as necessary.
$193.75
An item is regularly priced at $33. It is on sale for 35% off the regular price. Use the ALEKS calculator to find the sale price.
$21.45
Jim deposits $2000 into an account that pays simple interest at a rate of 4% per year. How much interest will he be paid in the first 2 years?
I = p x r x t
$160
45% of what number is 27?
60
A desk is on sale for $183.60, which is 27% of the regular price. What is the regular price?\
$680
The population of a city has increased by 15% since it was last measured. If the current population is 36,800, what was the previous population?
DOUBLE POINTS
32,000 people
David deposits $6000 into an account that pays simple interest at an annual rate of 3%. He does not make any more deposits. He makes no withdrawals until the end of 5 years when he withdraws all the money.
How much total interest will David earn and what is the total amount in the account at the end of 5 years? I = p x r x t
$900 interest and $6900 total