Percents Jeopardy

Connect Percentages and Proportional Reasoning

100

What percent is 36 out of 80?

45%

200

What percent is 98 out of 1960?

5%

300

Jake’s colored-pencil box has 7 red pencils, 5 blue pencils, 3 purple pencils, and 2 green pencils. What percent of the pencils are blue? 

Round to the nearest whole number, if necessary. 

29%

400

In May’s hometown, there are 25 hotels. If 60% of the hotels are completely booked for this weekend, how many hotels are completely booked?

15 hotels

500

Abby has a violin that she wants to sell. She is told that she can sell it for 65% of its original value. If she originally paid $1200 for the violin, how much can she sell it for now?

$780

Understand the Percent Equation

100

What is the percent equation?

Part=Percent*Whole

200

Jonathon has a box of 64 crayons. If he buys a box of 8 more crayons, by what percent did the number of crayons increase?

12.5%

300

On a quiz, Amanda answered 57 of the 60 questions correctly. What percentage of the questions did she answer incorrectly?

5%

400

Last year’s yearbook had 80 pages. This year, there will be 15% more pages. How many more pages will this yearbook have?

12 pages

500

One tree produces 240 apples. A second tree produces 30% more apples. How many more apples does the second tree produce?

72 apples

Convert Decimals to Percents

100

0.4
Convert this decimal to a percent.

40%

200

0.09
Convert this decimal to a percent.

9%

300

0.003
Convert this decimal to a percent.

0.3%

400

3.75
Convert this decimal to a percent.

375%

500

0.00082
Convert this decimal to a percent.

0.082%

Convert Percents to Decimals

100

25%
Convert this percent to a decimal.

0.25

200

6%
Convert this percent to a decimal.

0.06

300

0.8%
Convert this percent to a decimal.

0.008

400

240%
Convert this percent to a decimal.

2.4

500

0.03%
Convert this percent to a decimal.

0.0003

Hodge Podge

100

A hoodie originally costs $40, but it’s 20% off this week.
What is the sale price?

$32

200

A bag of trail mix is 65% peanuts. If the bag weighs 200 grams,
how many grams are peanuts?

130 grams

300

A show has 800 total reviews, and 12.5% of them are 1-star.
How many 1-star reviews does the show have?

100 1-star reviews

400

A town had 12,000 people last year. This year the population increased by 8%.
What is the new population?

12,960 people

500

A store gives customers 10% off, but if they have a loyalty card, they get an extra 15% off the discounted price. Jordan buys headphones originally priced at $120 and uses their loyalty card.
What is the final price Jordan pays?

$91.80