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Percent Problems
Interest
100
Convert 1/2 to a decimal.
What is 0.50
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 Landry want to move out of New Orleans when they grow up. If there are 500 students at Landry, how many want to leave New Orleans?
200
100

What is the Interest formula?

I=PRT

200

How do you convert a decimal to a percent?

What is move the decimal to the right two places.

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
Ms. Owens is in debt. Last month her debt was $1,000. This month her debt is 167% of that. What is her debt this month in dollars?
$1,670
200

Write an equation to find the simple interest rate when $450,000 earns $31,500 interest in 2 years.

31,500=450,000 x R x 2

300

Convert 7/8 to a percent.

What is 87.5%

300
Mr. McMorris 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
300

Edgar takes out a loan of $5,540, to be repaid after 7 years at 8.5% simple interest. How much interest will Edgar have to pay on the loan?

$3,296.30 in Interest

400

What is the percent change from 150 to 132

12%

400
D'Jonique goes out to eat at New Orleans Burger Company and gets a burger, fries, and milk shake for 13.27. She 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
A store paid $75.29 for a couch. To make a profit, the store charged 270% of the cost. What is the price tag the store puts on the couch?
$203.28
400

If you deposit $5,000 in a savings account, you will earn 6.5% simple interest over the first 10 years How much interest will the account earn over this period?

$3,250 in Interest
500

What is the percent change from $84.50 to $50.70?

What is 40% 

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
500

Delilah deposits $8,255 in an account that pays 4.2% simple interest. How much money will be in her account after 8 years?

$11,028.68 total in her account