Fractions/Decimals to Percentages
Percentages to Fractions/Decimals
One Quantity as a Percentage of Another Quantity
% of a Quantity
Random Facts
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What is 0.12 as a percentage?

12%

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What is 8% as a decimal?

0.08

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There are 25 girls, 18 boys, and 7 adults on a bus. What percentage of the people on the bus are adults?

14% of the people are adults

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What is 35% of $50?
$17.50
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True or False:

Some people are allergic to cats, but cats are not allergic to people

False - some cats are allergic to people

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What is 3.45 as a percentage?

345%

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What is 8% as a fraction in simplest form?
2/25
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Ben, Ming, and Samy shared $180. Ben received $45, Ming received $63, and Samy received the rest. What percentage of the money did Samy receive?
She received $72 or 40% of the money.
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A shirt is 30% off for Black Friday. The regular price is $40. How much money does the sale remove from the original price?

$12

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What is the national animal of Scotland?

The Unicorn

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What is 168/861 rounded to the nearest whole percentage

20%

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What is 0.5% as a fraction in simplest form and as a decimal?

1/200 and 0.005

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Duncan spent $480 on a television set and had $320 left. What percentage of his money did he spend on the television set?

He spent 60% of his money on the television set.

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There were 24 boys and 20 girls in a chess club last year. This year the number of boys in the club was increased by 25% but the number of girls was decreased by 10%. How many students are in the club this year?

48 students are in the club this year

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How many hearts does an octopus have?

3

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How can I change 0.065/100 into a fraction without decimals? Do so and simplify 

65/100,000 --> 13/20,000

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What is 38% as a fraction? Make sure it is fully simplified. 

19/50

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400 students were asked to choose their favorite games. 26% of them chose baseball, 12% basketball, 10% volleyball, and the rest chose soccer. How many students chose soccer?

208

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There were 1500 people at a concert. 55% of them were men, 20% of the remainder were women, and the rest were children. How many children were there?

375 children

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What is a group of jellyfish called?

A smack

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What is 3/8 as a percent?

37.5%

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You want to get a 90% on a test. The test is out of 60 points. How many points do you need to have?

54 points

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I averaged 80% on 2 tests. Both tests were out of 50 points. I got 42 points on my first test. How many points did I get on my second test?

38 points

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Amy had $120. She spent 20% of the money on food and 25% of the remaining on clothes. How much money did she have left?

She has $66 left.

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True or False:

Herring (the fish) communicate by farting at each other

True