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100

A restaurant charges a 7.5% sales tax. What percentage would represent the total bill?

107.5%

100

A milk carton is supposed to contain 16 fluid ounces, but only contains 15 fluid ounces. What is the desired amount of fluid ounces?

16 fluid ounces

100

If 16 goes into a percent machine and 20 comes out. What is the percent increase?

25% increase

100

The retail price of a dress is marked down by 30%. If r is the retail price and s is the sale price after the markdown, what variable would replace y in the equation y = kx

s

200

A bill has a total percent of 122.5%. What percent represent the amount of tip left?

22.5% 

200

The shelf length is 17.2 cm and the desired self length is 20.7 cm. What is the percent error?

17%

200

If 10 goes into the machine and 7.5 comes out. What is the percent decrease?

25% decrease

200

A pond experiences a 32% decrease in the fish population. Let n represent the new fish population and f represent the original fish population. Which would the k value be in the equation y = kx?

0.68

300

A bill for Texas Roadhouse is $35. There is an 8% sales tax. What is the total cost including tax? 

Money goes out to the 10th place.

$37.80

300

A tomato sauce recipe calls for 1 gram of sugar. When Diego weights the sugar on his scale, he gets a weight of 1.03 grams. What is the percent error of this measurement? 

3%

300

Last year, a city's minimum wage was $10 per hour. This year, they raised it to $12 per hour. What is the percent increase?

20% increase

300

A new rectangle is 21% longer than the original. Write an equation to represent the relationship between the length of an original rectangle, b, and the length of a new rectangle, c,. 

c = 1.21 b

400

The total spent at Olive Garden after a tip is left is 125.75. They left a 10% tip. What was bill amount?

Money goes out to the 10th place.

$114.32

400

The water in the deep side of a pool has a depth of 80 inches. Mai gets in the pool and estimates the depth of 84 inches. What is the percent error of this measurement?

5%

400

A small town had a population of 4,000 in 1990. By 2000, the population increased to 5,500. What is the percent change from 1990 to 2000? 

37.5% increase

400

Manuel paid off 88% of his debt. Let d represent the remaining debt amount and p represent the original debt. Write an equation. 

d = 0.12p

500

At a Longhorn the bill is $224.50. A sales tax of 8% is applied to the original bill. And a tip of 15% is applied to the original bill. What is the total cost including tax and tip? 

$276.14

500
A radar gun measured the speed of soccer ball at 45 miles per hour. If the soccer ball was actually going 52 miles per hour, what was the percent error? 


Round to the 10th place. 

13.5%

500
If 40 goes into a machine that increases it by 20%. 

Then the result goes into the next machine that decreases it by 20%. What number do we end with? 


38.4

500

A sneaker store raised its prices by 15% compared to last year. Let n represent the new price and let c represent the previous price. 

Write an equation. 

n = 1.15c