Percent Application
What number is 70% of 120?
84
128 is what percent of 80?
160%
What is the sales tax when a skateboard costs $40 and has a sales tax rate of 4%?
$1.60
How much would you tip your hairdresser if your haircut costs $25 and you want to tip her 15%?
$3.75
A parka that sold for $65 is marked up to $70.20. What is the percent of markup?
108%?
Carlos is buying a new ride on lawn mower and will be borrowing $2,000 from the bank at a 12% rate for 5 years. How much interest must he pay?
$1200
There are 35 competitors in a marathon. Sixty percent of these competitors finished the race in under four hours. How many competitors finished the race in under four hours?
21 competitors
Of the 60 seeds that you plant, 80% germinate. How many seeds germinate?
48 seeds
A belt costs $23.00. The sales tax on the belt is $1.38. What percent of sales tax were you charged?
6%
Julie went to Mi Carreta's last night for dinner. Her meal costs $24.20 and she leaves a $3.63 tip. What percent tip did she leave for her waiter?
15%
A grocery store has a 60% markup on a can of soup. The can of soup costs the store $1.50. What is the selling price for the can of soup?
$2.40?
Mae wants to buy a new car. She borrows $30,000 for an interest rate of 15.5% for 8 years. How much interest will she have to pay?
$37,200
You pay $3.69 for a gallon of gasoline. This is 90% of the price of a gallon of gasoline one year ago. What was the price of a gallon of gasoline one year ago?
$4.10
You and your friend are selling tickets for the orchestra concert. On Thursday, you sold 15 tickets and your friend sold 10 tickets. What percent of the tickets sold on Thursday did you sell?
60%
You are charged 6% sales tax. You purchase a new bicycle and pay $27 in sales tax. What is the total price of the bicycle including tax?
$450
Michael’s bill at a restaurant was $46.32. He wants to leave a 17% tip. What will the total bill be, including tip?
$54.19?
The regular price of a Space Invader game is $52, but it is on sale. The discount is $13. What percent discount is this?
25%?
Jessie invests $3,345 in the stock market. Over the 3 years she has this invested she gets an average return of 7.8%. How much will her investment be worth after the 3 years?
$782.73
You must attend a minimum of 85% of the practices in order to play in the playoffs. You have made 37 of the 42 practices. Will you be able to play in the playoffs?
Yes, because you will have made 88%.
During a given month, there was a total of 23.6 inches of rain. This was 250% of the average rainfall for that month. What is the average rainfall for that month?
9.4 inches
You bought new sneakers for $81.12 including tax. The price before tax on the sneakers was $78. What percent of sales tax were you charged?
4%
At a restaurant you only have $30 to spend on dinner. In addition to the cost of the meal you must pay an 8% sales tax and leave a 20% tip. What is the most expensive item you can order?
$22.08?
Best Buy was having a 20% off sale on all flat screen TVs. For special customers who had a coupon, there was an additional 15% off after the 20%. YOU are a special customer. How much does a $1350 TV cost you?
$918?
Taylor has just won $4,250 from the 50/50 at the Sea Dog's game and decides to invest all of it. If he makes $1,275 with a 5% interest rate, how long must he have had the money invested?
6 years
You earn a score of 86.8 on a standardized exam. Your score is 140% higher than your friend's score on the standardized exam. What is your friend's score?
62
To maintain an acceptable level of chlorine in your pool, you add 1.4 gallons of chlorine. This is 0.007% of the amount of water in your pool. How many gallons of water are in your pool?
20,000 gallons
Maggie and Laura go out to lunch at Applebee's. The bill for their restaurant meal is $22. They decide to leave a 15% tip. The sales tax is 6%. Compute both tip and sales tax on the $22. How much does each girl pay?
13.41
You and five friends go to Cheesecake Factory for your birthday. The total bill comes to $243. You want to tip 20% and the tax is 6%. Compute both tax and tip on the $243. How much does each person owe?
$51.03
Juanita borrowed $1,575 from her parents for car repairs. She plans to take 12.5% of her $450 weekly income to pay them back. At this rate, how many weeks will it take her to pay off the long?
28 weeks?
Morgan has an investment worth $130,000 dollars after 20 years. If his original investment was for $50,000 what must the interest rate have been?
8%