Finding the Part
Finding the Percent
Percent Word Problems
Part Word Problems
Riddles
100
25% of 16 is _____.
What is 4.
100

2 is what percent of 10

What is 20%?

100

You answered 25 out of 50 questions correctly on a test. What percent did you answer correctly?

What is 50%?

100

65% of students do not study prior to tests. If there are a total of 700 students, how many do not study for tests?

What is 455 do not study?

100

What has a head and a tail but no body?

A coin

200

75% of 12 is _____.

What is 9?

200

44 is what percent of 200?

What is 22%?

200

180 out of the 300 sixth graders live within 1 mile of school. What percent of the sixth graders live within 1 mile of school?

What is 60% live within 1 mile?

200

16% out of 50 candies are blue. How many are blue?

What is 8 candies are blue?

200

Where does today come before yesterday?

The dictionary

300

63% of 55 is _____.

What is 34.65?

300

54 is what percent of 120?

What is 45%?

300

I ran for 8 out of the 9 miles (I walked 1 mile to recover). On what percent of my route did I run?

What is 88.8 (repeating)% or 88.89% 

300

56% of 1400 student at March are girls. How many are girls?

What is 784 girls?

300

What has ears but cannot hear?

A cornfield

400

45% of 25?

What is 11.25?

400

12 is what percent of 36?

What is 33 1/3%?

400

A raspberry bush produces 90 raspberries. If the birds eat 52 of the raspberries, what percent did they eat?

What is 57.7 (repeating) or 57.78% was eaten by birds.

400

John got 85% out of 40 questions correct on his test. How many did he get correct?

What is 34 questions correct?

400

What goes up but never comes back down?

Your age

500

120% of $200

What is $240

500

85 is what percent of 140? (round to 2 decimal places)

What is 60.71%?

500

You spend an average of 2 hours a day on your cell phone. What percent of your day do you spend on your cell phone?

What is 8.3 (repeating)%

500

Mary got 72% out of 25 questions correct on her test. How many did she get wrong?

What is 7 questions wrong?

500

What starts with an ā€˜e’ and ends with an ā€˜e’ but only has one letter in it?

An envelope.