Real Life Part of Whole to Percent

What is the percent of the shaded region in the figure? (Hint: It might help to write as a fraction first)

• 60%

• 12%

• 40%

• 8%

In the school election James ran against Ben for secretary.  James received 75% of the votes.  If 240 students voted, how many votes did James receive?

• 175

• 160

• 153

• 180

Caroline took a math test and answered 19 questions correctly and 6 questions incorrectly. What percent of the questions did she answer correctly?

• 76%

• 66%

• 24%

• 54%

What Percent of the image is shaded?

• 3%

• 30%

• 33%

• 300%

There are 10 girls and 15 boys in French class. What percent are girls?

• 40%

• 60%

• 75%

• 66 ⅔%

Eric earned 60 points on his last test. If there were 75 possible points, what was his percent grade?

• 20%

• 40%

• 60%

• 80%

A painter has finished painting 45% of a really long fence. If she has painted 90 feet so far, how long is the entire fence?

• 80 ft

• 200 ft

• 80 ft

• 300 ft

In a food survey of 350 people, 70 people said they like to eat Ajillos tacos. What percent of people do NOT like to eat Ajillos Tacos

• 25%

• 20%

• 80%

• 85%

There were 160 people in a school cafeteria. Fifty percent of them had pizza and the rest had chicken. How many students had chicken?

• 180

• 160

• 130

• 80

800 balloons were made to use for a water balloon fight. They used 160 of the balloons on the opponents. What percent of the balloons were used on the opponents?

• 20%

• 40%

• 10%

• 15%