Pythagoras
Jay's term paper is 18 pages long. If Madison's paper is 175% of the length of Jay's paper, find the length of Madison's paper.
Madison's paper is 31.5 pages long.
51 is 6% of what number?
850
What is 21/25 written as a decimal and percent?
84% and 0.84.
In a class, there are 17 boys and 15 girls. What percent of the class were boys? Round your answer to the nearest percent.
53%
Find 21/2% of 11,960 using one of the percent equations.
Part = Percent x Whole
Part = 299
150 is what percent of 80?
187.5%
32% as a decimal?
0.32
What number is 662/3% of 45?
30
The information below shows a survey of how many people preferred these food items compared to one another.
Sandwiches: 101
Pasta: 321
Pizza: 490
What percent of people liked sandwiches? Round to the nearest tenth.
11.1%
You ate at Olive Garden with your family and your bill came out to $57.39. You decide to leave an 18% tip. What is the total bill?
$67.72
12.5 is what percent of 1250?
1%
Of the 20 highest mountains in the United States, 17 are located in Alaska. What percent of the highest mountains in the United States are in Alaska?
85%
If there are 3.87 cm3 of oxygen in an 18 cm3 sample of air, what percent of the sample is oxygen?
21.5%
75% of what number is 18? What proportion would be used to solve this?
18/x = 75/100 or 75/100 = 18/x
Health forms were given out at the beginning of the year. Of the 90 students in Sections 713-715, 84 students handed them in. Use the percent equation to find what percent of students did not hand in the health forms.
62/3% did not hand in the forms.
24 is 15% of what number?
160
An analysis showed that 0.03% of the video games produced by one company were defective. Wynn says this is 3 out of every 1,000. Is Wynn correct?
No. The ratio is 3 out of every 10,000.
10% of what number is 57?
570
Of the 50 states in the Union, 32% have names that begin with either M or N. What are you trying to find (i.e. Part, Whole, or Percent)?
Part
In a poll of 225 students, 36 said that their favorite Thanksgiving food was turkey, and 56 said that their favorite was stuffing. Give the percent of students who said neither turkey nor stuffing were their favorite Thanksgiving food. Round to the nearest percent.
59%
Manuel sold 42 of his baseball cards at a collectors show. If this represented 12.5% of his total collection, how many baseball cards did Manuel have before the show?
336 baseball cards.
Sterling silver is an alloy combining 925 parts pure silver and 75 parts of another metal, such as copper. What percent of sterling silver is not pure silver?
7.5%
When a tire is labeled "180/70/14," that means it is 185 mm wide, the sidewall height (from the rim to the road) is 70% of its width and the wheel has a diameter of 14 in. What is the tire's sidewall height?
129.5mm
Two jumbo sized bags of candy costs $6.50. You can either use a coupon for 15% off or $2.00 off your purchase. Which one has the better dollars off? Why?
15% off of $13 is $1.95. It is less than the $2.00 off coupon so using the $2.00 off coupon is the better one.
The only kind of rock that floats in water is pumice. Chalk, although denser, absorbs more water than pumice does. How much water can a 5.2 oz piece of chalk absorb if it can absorb 32% of its weight?
1.664 oz.