Week 11 - Percent of a Quantity

When finding the percent "of" a quantity, the signal word of indicates you perform which operation?

• addition
• multiplication 
• subtraction
• division

A percent is a number out of...

• 1
• 50
• 100
• itself

What is 10% of 15?

• 1.5
• 1.56
• 2.5
• 15

What is 50% of 32?

• 14
• 15
• 16
• 17

What is 25% of 16?

• 25
• 16
• 4
• 8

What is 30% of 50?

• 16
• 16.3
• 17.4
• 15

A student earned an 80% on a math test that had 25 problems.  How many problems on the test did the student answer correctly?

• 20
• 21
• 18
• 25

Maxwell took 8 shots on goal in his hockey game and made 2 of them. What percent of his shots did he miss?

• 25%
• 50%
• 75%
• 10%

Tags

CCSS.5.NF.B.3

Caroline took a math test and got 19 out of 25 questions correct.  What percent of the questions did she answer correctly?

• 76%
• 66%
• 24%
• 54%

There are 75 students in the school band.  45 students play woodwind instruments.  What percent of students play woodwinds?

• 35%
• 60%
• 55%
• 70%