Simplifying Fractions
Fraction/Decimal/Percent
Percent of a Quantity
Finding the missing whole
Percent Word Problems
100

Write in simplest form:

4/24

What is 

1/6

100

Write the percent as a fraction in lowest terms and as a decimal:

22%

What is 

22/100=11/50

0.22

100

Find

60% of 120

What is 

72

100

25% of a number is 16.  

Find the number.

What is 64?

100

A survey finds that 3 out of every 10 students in Savannah live farther than 2 miles from their school.  What percent of students is that?

What is 30%?

200

Write in simplest form:

15/25

What is 

3/5

200

Write as a decimal and a percent:

4/5

What is 0.8 and 80%?

200

Find 

0.3% of 75

What is 

0.225

200

45% of a number is 18.

Find the number.

What is 40?
200

Just Shirts has 90 shirts on sale.  Of those 90 shirts, 55 shirts are polo shirts.  Which is the best estimate for the percent of shirts sold that are polo shirts?

a) 45%     b) 57%     c) 75%    d) 50%

What is 

b) 57%

300

Write in simplest form:

490/560

What is 

7/8

300

Write as a fraction in simplest form and as a decimal:

88%

What is 

88/100=22/25

0.88

300

What percent of 44 is 11?

What is 

25%

300

85% of _______ is 136

What is 160?

300

A table costs $350.  There is also a sales tax of 7%.  How much will the tax be?

What is

$24.50

400

Simplify:

35/100

What is 

7/20

400

Write as a percent and as a fraction in simplest form:

0.64

What is 

64/100=32/50=16/25

64%

400

What percent of 600 is 138?

What is 


23%

400

45% of what is 108?

240

400

Maddie leaves a 15% tip for her waiter at a restaurant.  She leaves a $3 tip.  What is the amount of her bill (before tip)?

What is 

$20

500

Write in simplest form:

325/1000

What is 

13/40

500

Write as a fraction and a percent:

2.7

What is 

2 7/10

270%

500

Students at a new middle school voted to help select the new mascot.  Suppose 400 students voted.  If 23% of the students voted for a tiger to be the mascot, how many students would that have been?

What is 


92?

500

70% of the students in Matthew's class have a pet.  If 21 students have a pet, how many students are in his class?

What is 30?

500

Amelia has 6 gallons of gasoline in her car. This is 40% of the total amount of gasoline that the tank will hold.  How many gallons of gasoline does Amelia's gas tank hold?

What is 15 gallons?