Applied Percents

The price of a certain item is P dollars. The sales tax on the item is 7%. Which expression could represent the total cost of the item, in dollars, after the tax has been applied?

• 0.07P

• 1.7P

• P + 0.07P

• 1 + 0.07P

There are 4,000 books in the library. Of these, 2,200 are fiction. Which equation could be used to solve for the percent of books that are fiction.

A ticket company charges a 4% service fee on all orders. How much is the service fee for a ticket that costs $65? Select the equation that can model this situation.

Leonel downloaded 40 songs last week, including 14 jazz songs. What percent of Leonel's downloads were jazz songs?

• 35%

• 30%

• 32%

• 45%

There are 65 students who walk to West Middle School each day. This is 12.5% of the total number of students at the school. How many students attend West Middle School?

• 100 students

• 480 students

• 520 students

• 550 students

A school drama club has 40 members. Of those students, 35% of the members are seventh graders. How many drama club members are seventh graders?

• 14 members

• 12 members

• 20 members

• 35 members

The movies decides to raise the ticket prices 25%. The original ticket price was $12. Which percent equation can be used to determine the amount by which the ticket price will increase?

Kedar earns a weekly salary of $475 plus a 5.5% commission on sales at the gift shop. How much would he earn in a week if he sold $700 in goods?

• $513.50

• $501.13

• $738.50

• $726.13

The Striton family had a meal catered for a wedding rehearsal dinner. The cost of the dinner was $476. There was a 5% sales tax and they left a 15% tip. What was the total cost including the sales tax and the tip?

• $499.80

• $547.40

• $574.77

• $571.20

Malachi bought a new fishing rod. The regular price of the fishing rod was $125.99. He bought it on sale with a 15% discount. Sales tax of 3% is applied to the discounted total. What was the sale price with tax of Malachi's fishing rod to the nearest cent?

• $110.30

• $149.24

• $140.54

• $103.88