Percent Problems
Unit Rate
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Proportions
100

What is the percent proportion?

What is part/whole = percent/100

100
If Mimi drives 50 miles in 2 hours, what is her rate (speed per hour)?
What is 25 miles per hour
100

1 gallon = 4 quarts

How many gallons are in 52 quarts?

What is 13 gallons

100

Mike ran 3 1/4 miles and Harry ran 2  3/4 miles.  How many total miles did Mike and Harry run together?

What is 6

100
Anna earns $12 in 3 hours. How much does she make in 5 hours?
What is $20
200

There are 200 students at Mountain View Middle School.  40% ride the bus.  How many students ride the bus to school?

What is 80 students

200
If James types 120 words per 3 minutes, what is his rate of typing?
What is 40 words per minute
200

In a class there are 20 boys and 15 girls. The ratio of boys to girls is

What is 4 to 3

200

                                                                       

A music club has 8 members. Each member pays monthly dues of $5.00. On the first day of the month, 3 members paid their dues. The remaining members paid their dues on the second day of the month. How much money was collected in dues on the second day of the mo

                                                       


    

What is $25

200
Ramon gets 10 points in 4 games. How many does he get in 6 games?
What is 15 points
300

The volleyball team has 20 players.  Only 5% failed one or more classes.  How many players failed one or more class?

What is 1

300
If 10 bags of Hot Cheetos cost $3.50, then how much does 1 cost?
What is $0.35
300

Convert the following fractions to decimals
1/2

1/4

3/4

1/5

What is

.50

.25

.75

.20

300

                                                                   Members of the football team  held a bake sale to raise money. Brownies and donuts were sold.

                       

Brownies were sold for $1 each. Donuts were sold for $2.00 each
The members sold a total of  50 items .

                       

Of the items sold, 1/5 were brownies and the remaining items were donuts. How much money did the football team raise from the donuts that were sold?

                                                       


    

What is $80

300
Henry reads 8 pages in 6 minutes, then he reads 4 pages in how many minutes?
What is 3 minutes
400

The Dallas Cowboys scored 18 points last week.  This week they scored 27 points.  What was the percent of change in their score?

What is  50 % increase

400
Which is the better deal $20 for 5 t-shirts or $24 for 8 t-shirts
What is $24 for 8 t-shirts (rate of $3 per shirt)
400

Create a table with 3 values for the following rate:

A car can travel 40 miles per hour

What is 

(1,40), (2,80), (3, 120), (4,160) etc.....

400

Baskin Robbins offer 2 types of cones, sugar and waffle cones.  Last Sunday they sold a total of 30  cones.  

2/3 of the cones were sugar cones and the rest were waffle cones.  How many waffle cones did they  sell?

What is 10 waffle cones.

400
Julia texts 60 words in 4 minutes, then she texts 45 words in how many minutes?
What is 3 minutes
500

What is the Percent of change proportion

What is

Amount of change/original amount = % of change/100

500
What is a unit rate?
a ratio where the bottom number is a 1
500

What is the constant of proportionality?

A baker can bake 8 cakes in 4 hours

What is 2 cakes per hour

500

One year on Venus is equivalent to 224 days on Earth.  How many days on earth, in decimal form, are equivalent to 9 1/2 years on Venus?

What is 2128 days

500

                                                                       

A recipe for fruit salad includes 2/3 cups of pecans for 3 servings.   How many cups of pecans are needed for 9 servings?

                                                       


    

What is 2 cups