Percent Proportion Applications

Valerie answered 28 problems on her test correctly. If Valerie correctly answered 80% of the problems on the test, then how many problems were on the test?

Daniel downloaded 375 songs. If 24% of the songs were free, then how many songs did Daniel download for free?

The movie theater has 250 seats. 225 seats were sold for the current showing. What percent of seats are sold?

The hockey team won 63 out of the 84 games it played this year. What percent of the games did the team win?

What is 46% as a decimal?

• 4.6

• 0.046

• 0.46

• 46

There are 35 boys out for football. This is about 5% of the total enrollment. How many total kids are in the school?

A student made an 85% on a test with 25 questions. What is the number of questions that the student answered correctly? Round the the nearest whole number.

Round this decimal to the nearest hundredth.

3.67392

Of the 60 fiction and non-fiction books on a bookshelf, 24 are fiction.  What percent of the books are non-fiction?

Abigail took a science test and got 36 correct and 4 incorrect answers. What was the percentage of correct answers?