Percents
Word Problems
100
What is 9/10 written as a percent?
What is 90%
100
Johnny cut his pie into eighths. Suzy cut her pie into sixths. Who has larger slices of pie?
What is Suzy
200
What are all percents out of?
What is 100%
200
There are ten cookies in the cookie jar. 3 are Oreos. 2 are peanut butter cookies. 4 are chocolate chip cookies. 1 is a sugar cookie. What fraction of the cookies are peanut butter cookies?
What is 2/10 or 1/5
300
Write this decimal as a percent .04
What is 4%
300
There are 7 gloves in the lost and found box. There are 2 blue gloves, 3 green gloves, 1 black glove, and 1 brown glove. What fraction of the gloves are not black or brown?
What is 5/7
400
Write this fraction as a percent 21/25.
What is 84%
400
Falmouth got 6 and 3/4 inches of snow. Sandwich got 5 and 5/8 inches of snow. How much more snow did Falmouth get than Sandwich?
What is 1 and 1/8
500
Write this fraction as a percent rounded to the nearest hundredth. 6/7
What is 86%
500
The kids measured the snow outside and found out that there were 56 and 1/6 inches. The weather reporter said they were supposed to get 36 and 1/2 more inches. How much snow will there be all together?
What is 96 and 2/3 inches