Fractions and Decimals to Percent
Percent to Fractions and Decimals
Percent of a Quantity
Tax, Tip and Discount
Pot Luck aka Word Problems
Unit Rates
100

Write  

3/5

  as a percent.

What is 60%?

100

Express 37% as a decimal.

What is 0.37?

100

Find 35% of 100.

What is 35?

100

A blanket costs $35.  You have a "10% OFF" coupon. Find the amount you can save if you use the coupon.

What is $3.50?

100

There are 13 girls and 12 boys in Ms. Perrotta's math class.  Find the percent girls.

What is 52% girls?

100

Fiona ran 4 laps in 18 minutes. If she runs at a constant rate, determine how long it will take her to run 12 laps.

What is 54 minutes?

200

Express 0.7 as a percent.

What is 70%?

200

Write 75%

 as a simplified fraction.

What is  

¾

?

200

Find 66% of 740.

What is 488.4?

200

Let's say NJ sales tax is 7%.  Find the tax on a video game that costs $39.

What is $2.73?

200

Mr. Smith makes $2500 a month.  25% is for rent.  Find the amount spent on rent.

What is $625?

200

Our town got 15 inches in 2.5 hours. 

NYC got 13 inches in 2 hours.  

Determine who got more snow and explain why.

What is "NYC got more snow because it got 6.5 inches/hour and we only got 6 inches per hour"?

300

Write

13/20

   as a percent and a decimal.

What is 65% and 0.65?

300

Write 42% as a simplified fraction and decimal.

What is 0.42 and

21/50

 ?

300

75% of a number is 354.  Find the number.

What is 472?

300

Your new haircut costs $65. You decide to give the hairdresser a 20% tip.  Find how much you pay in all - tip and cut.

What is $78?  65 + 13

300

Ms. Perrotta bought flowers for a bouquet.  She bought 35 roses, 18 tulips and 7 hydrangeas.  Find the percent for tulips.

What is 30%?

300

Gabriel starts a youtube channel. He gets 33 subscribers in the first 6 days. At this rate, determine the number of subscribers Gabriel will be expect to have at 28 days.

What is 154 subscribers?

400

Write 8.9 as a percent and a simplified fraction or mixed number.

What is 890% and

8 9/10

 ?

400

Write 125% as a decimal and simplified fraction or mixed number.

What is 1.25 and  

1 ¼

?

400
250% of a number is 60.  Find the number.

What is 24?

400
Fiona buys 2 new notebooks for $5.75 each and a pack of pencils for $4.25.  Find the total price Fiona pays if there is 7% sales tax. Round to the nearest cent if necessary.

What is $16.85?

It was 16.8525 before rounding.

400

Felicity baked 300 cookies for Valentine's Day.  She sold 50% of the them.  She gave away the remaining cookies in a ratio of 2:3 to her uncle's family and her grandparents. Determine how many cookies she gave to her brother's family.

What is 60 cookies?

400

Frank is buying a lasagna for his holiday party. He has two choices-  A 4.5 pound lasagna for $25.20 or a 6.75 pound lasagna for $35.10. Determine the better buy and explain why.

What is the 6.75 pound lasagna because it costs $5.20/pound? The other lasagna is $5.60 per pound.

500

Express  

102/350

 a percent.  If need be, round to the nearest whole percent.

What is 29%?

500

Express 25.5% as a decimal and simplified fraction.

What is 0.255 and  

51/200

?

500

A school raised $5,000 for its new library.  39% of the money raised is for fiction books.  38% was raised for non-fiction books. The rest of the money was raised for trivia books. Find the percent and actual amount for trivia.

What is 23 % and $1,150?

500

You and a friend eat at Wyckoff Pizza for lunch.  You split a pizza for $15.75 and get waters for $1.50 each.  You decide to split the bill and leave the waitress a 15% tip.  Find how much you each pay. If necessary, round to the nearest cent.

What is $10.78 each?

500

William sold $250 worth of items at TREPS night in December.  25% of that money covered the cost. Of the remaining money, he gave 36% to charity and used 22% to buy a new watch  . Determine how much was given to charity and how much the watch cost.

What is $67.50 to charity and $41.25 for the watch?

500

Mrs. Smith needs to buy sugar for her cookies. Help her determine the better buy. Note: 1 pound = 16 ounces. Explain with mathematical reasoning.

Bag A is a 5 pound bag for $4.50.

Bag B is 64 oz for $3.40.

Bag C is 2.5 pounds for $2.20.

What is "the 64 oz or 4 pound bag because the price per pound is $0.85"? The 5 pound bag is $0.90 per pound and the 2.5 pound bag is $0.88 per pound.

600

Express 0.0564 as a simplified fraction and percent.

What is 5.64% and 

141/2500?

600

Express the following percent as a simplified fraction and decimal:

3/4 %

What is 0.0075 and 

3/400?

600

A bag of M&Ms were divided into a ratio of brown to red to green to  blue  as 4:5:3:6.  Determine the percent of brown M & Ms. If need be, round to the nearest tenth of a percent.

What is 22.2%?

600

Mrs. Perrotta buys her husband a new putter for Valentine's Day. The original cost is $475. It's on sale for 15% off. Find the final price after sales tax of 6.5%. Remember tax comes on after the discount. If necessary, round to the nearest cent.

What is $429.99?

600

Mrs. Florio baked 160 cookies for Nicole's school's bake sale.  25% are chocolate chip and 15% are peanut butter. Of the remaining cookies, half of them were snickerdoodles, and the other half were split between mint cookies, raspberry jam cookies and oatmeal cookies. Determine the percent of oatmeal cookies

What is 10%?

600

Veronica is making costumes for her community theater. Two fairy costumes uses 7 1/2 square feet of material. One butterfly costume uses 4 1/4 square feet of material. Veronica needs 11 fairy costumes and 4 butterfly costumes.  Determine how much material she needs AND if material cost $3.75 a square foot, then find the price. If necessary, round to the nearest cent.

What is 41.25 square feet for the fairy costumes and 17 square feet for the butterfly costumes for a total of 58.25 square feet?  The cost is $218.44 rounded because the exact answer is $218.4375.