Percent Equations
Find the 100%
Find tip and sales tax of a purchase
Other Percent Problems (LEAP)
100
Lucero bought flower for her mother for mothers day.  She spent n dollars plus 7% tax.  This expression represents her total cost:

A. 1.07n          B.  0.93n 

C. 0.07n          D.  n + 7

What is 1.07n?
100

Rosalba answer 28 out of 30 questions correctly on a test.  What was her score as a percent (round to the whole percent)?

What is 93%

100
What is the total including tip of a meal that costs $13. You pay a 20% tip.
$15.60
100

40% of students at WHEELS want to move out of New York City when they grow up. If there are 500 students at Landry, how many want to leave New Orleans?

200

200

Is 7/8 a repeated decimal or a terminating decimal?  

What is terminating?

200

Jean scored a 95% on his last test.  He got 76 questions right.  How many questions were on the test?

What is 90?

200
Find the cost including tax for a snack that costs $2.45. The tax rate is 8.5%. Round to the nearest cent.
$2.66
200

Lizmardo took out a loan to pay for college of $30,000.  He has to pay 1.5% interest each year on the loan.  How much interest does he have to pay over 4 years?

What is $1800?

300

Rubi wants to increase his reading time by 15% next week.  If he reads for h hours now, which expression represents the total number of hours he wants to read next week?

A. 0.15n        B. 1.15n 

C. 0.85n.       D. n + 15

What is 1.15n?

300

The new price of an item after a 30% discount is $31.50.  What was the original price?

What is $45

300

Mr. Perez bought a new iPad for $950.13. Tax on the iPad is 11%. What is the cost with tax?

$1,054.50

300
0.5% of all statistics are true. If you have a list of 1,400 statistics. How many are true?
7 statistics are true
400

The final price after a 30% discount?

0.3n

1.3n

0.7n

n- 30 


What is 0.7n?

400

Mr. Perez's cell phone bill including tax was $54.50 last month.  It included a 9% tax.  What was the original price before tax?

What is $50

400

Sebastian goes out to eat at New Orleans Burger Company and gets a burger, fries, and milk shake for 13.27. He tips 15% and tax is 8.5%. Name the amount of the tax AND the amount of the tip. Do not list the total amount.

Tip is $1.99, tax is $1.13.

400

Melenie got a summer job where she earns $15 per hour plus 2% commission on her sales.  She worked for 40 hours last week and sold $18,000 worth of merchandise.   How much did she earn in total last week?

What is $960?

500

To find the final price after a 25% off discount and a 9% tax which two steps can you take to get the final price?

A) multiply by 0.75 then multiply by 1.09

B) multiply by 0.25 then multiply by 0.09

C) multiply by 1.25 then multiply by 1.09

D) divide by 0.25 then multiply by 0.09

What is A?

500

Foot Locker buys their sneakers wholesale from the Nike Factory.  They charge their customers $105 for a certain pair of sneakers which includes a 40% mark up of from the wholesale price.  What is the whole sale price?

What is $75?

500

Benjamin Bannaker, the famous mathemetician, went out to a fancy dinner. The dinner cost $89.67. He tipped the waiter 20% and tax was 5%. What was the total including tip and tax?

$115.41

500

Josh flips a quarter 20 times. It falls on tails 30% of the time. How many times does it fall on heads?

14 heads