Percent Proportion Find the Whole

Determine if you are finding the part, percent, or whole:

12 is 50% of what number?

• Part

• Percent

• Whole

Which proportion matches the following:34% of what number is 51?

Which proportion matches the following: 2 is 10% of what number?

Which proportion represents the following word problem:
The movie theater has 250 seats. 225 seats were sold for the current showing. What percent of seats are sold?

Write an equation for the following:
 Fifty is 15% of what number?

Write an equation for:
33 is what percent of 100?

Use the percent proportion or percent equation to answer the following:

A person ate 2400 calories in a day. Of these, 36% came from fat. How many calories came from fat?

• 984

• 830

• 1142

• 864

Use the percent proportion or percent equation to answer the following:

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

• 30%

• 67%

• 75%

• 80%

Use the percent proportion or percent equation to answer the following: Sarah earns $20 in total, each day working after school. She spent 30% of her daily earnings on Monday. How much money did she spend on Monday?

• $1.40

• $6

• $0.60

• $14

Use the percent proportion or percent equation to answer the following:

Shirley spelled 12 of her 16 spelling words correctly on the test. What percent grade did Shirley get on the test?

• 70%

• 50%

• 75%

• 60%