Finding Percent for a Fraction Using Proportions
Find the percent for each of the fractions in problems #1 through #4. Make a proportion, cross multiply, and solve.
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| 2) Solve:
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| 3) Solve:
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| 4) Solve:
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Percent Problems – Finding Percent
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| 5) Tina is selling Christmas cards to make some extra money for Christmas. For every $3.00 card she sells, she earns $0.75. What percent of the cost of the card does she receive for her earnings? Write a proportion, then solve.
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| 6) Tamara’s pet cat, Tabby, has 8 baby kittens. Five of the kittens are black and three are gray. What percent of the kittens are black?
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| 7) Rich likes to shoot the three-point shot in basketball. In one game he attempted 20 shots and made 9 of them. What was his game percentage for completed three-point shots?
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| 8) Angie’s volleyball team played 20 games and won 65% of those games. How many games did they win?
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| 9) In a package of 200 candy covered chocolates, 30 percent of the candies should be colored red. How many should be colored red?
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| 10) Find 42% of 500.
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Using Percents
Use the graphic to answer the questions #11 and #12.
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| 11) What would be the amount of savings on these shoes? Round the answer to nearest cent. Make sure the discount is reasonable as the discount will be a portion of the original price.
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| 12) What would be the sale price of these shoes? Make sure the sales price is reasonable as it will be less than the original price.
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Ask an adult for the sales tax rate for your county? Use your county’s sales tax rate to solve problems #13 and #14.
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| 13) Solve to find how much tax would be added for the purchase of a $19.95 DVD movie? In the answer include the county you live in and the sales tax rate along with the answer. Round to nearest cent if needed. Make sure the decimal is placed correctly and the sales tax is a reasonable amount. Check with an adult if you are not sure.
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| 14) Compute the total amount that would be paid for the purchase of the DVD in problem #13. Make sure the answer is reasonable as the total price will be a little higher after adding on tax.
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| 15) Refer to the graphic and compute the percent of bicycles that are colored tan. Round the answer to nearest hundredth. Make sure the answer is reasonable as you are finding a percentage of the whole group; thus the percent will be between 0 and 100 percent as 100 percent represents the whole group.
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| 16) Justify why the answer to 3.4 + 5 + 0.98 is close to 9.
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| 17) Explain how 22 ÷ 1.1 is a number greater than 2. What is that number?
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| 18) Explain why 1/6 + 2/3 cannot equal 2/9.
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| 19) 0.7 times 0.8 equals 0.56. Why?
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| 20) To subtract 6.83 from 9, express 9 as what decimal? Explain why this decimal cannot be 0.
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| 21) Which of the following is true?
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| 22) Express the decimal, 0.42, as a fraction and as a percent.
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| 23) What is the length of the magenta arrow to the nearest eighth?
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| 24) Using cross products, write an equation for the following proportion, and then solve.
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| 25) What percent of the squares are not shaded green?
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