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100
A coat is discounted 60% off its regular price. What fraction and decimal is equivalent to 60%?
What is 60/100 or 6/10 or 3/5 and .60?
100

What is 15% of 170? 

25.5

100

Jack was shopping for candy canes.  He noticed Target  was selling 4 boxes for $3.50 and Walmart was selling 3 boxes for $2.75.  Who had the better deal?

Target at about $0.88 a box.

200
Write 3/20 as a percent.
What is 15%?
200

60% of what number is 120

200

200

Are these rates equivalent?

25 heartbeats in 10 seconds

75 heartbeats in 30 seconds


Yes, they have the same unit rate of 2.5 beats per second.

300
Write .87 as a percent and as a fraction.
What is 87% and 87/100?
300

Xavier determined that 8% of the sixth grade students in his school wear glasses. There are 300 students in the sixth grade. How many students in sixth grade wear glasses?

What is 24?

300

Jerami was riding his bike at a constant speed of 24 miles per hour.  It took David 35 minutes to go 14 miles.  Who was riding their bike faster?

They were going the same speed. O.4 per minute

400
Write 20% as a fraction and a decimal.
What is 1/5 and .20?
400

Tammy received 6% off of a $140 dollar coat.  How much money was the coat discounted?

What is $8.40?

400
I traveled from New York to Florida, which was about 1,200 miles.  I took a plane, and the flight was about 3 hrs.  How fast was the plane going (unit rate)?

The plane was traveling 400 miles per hour.

500
Write 7/200 as a decimal and percent.
What is 3.5% or .035?
500
There are 80 sixth graders at Locke Elementary.  Out of the 80, 40% are girls.  How many 6th graders are girls.

32

500

Are these equivalent?

150 miles in 2 hrs

80 miles in 1hr 5min

No

It's 1.25 to about 1.23