Percent Fraction Decimal Word Problem

Solving word problems involving fractions: If John ate 3/4 of a pizza, what percentage of the pizza did he eat?

• 25%

• 75%

• 50%

• 90%

There is one pizza and two people are going to split it in half. How would you convert one half into a fraction, decimal and percent?

• 1/2  ,  0.5  ,  50%

• 1/4  ,  0.25  ,  25%

• 3/4  , 0.75  ,  75%

• \1/20  ,  0.05 ,  5%

Solving word problems involving fractions: If 5/8 of a group of students are girls, what percentage of the group are boys?

• 50%

• 25%

• 37.5%

• 62.5%

Solving word problems involving fractions: If 3/5 of a garden is planted with flowers, what fraction of the garden is not planted with flowers?

• 2/5

• 1/5

• 4/5

• 3/5

Shirley spelled 12 of her 15 spelling words correctly on the test. What percent grade did Shirley get on the test?

• 70%

• 20%

• 12%

• 80%

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

• 20%

• 40%

• 60%

• 80%

While mining, Jason found a large metal bar that weighed 40 ponds. Jason was also able to determine that the bar contained 30% gold. How many pounds of gold are in the metal bar? Round your answer to the nearest whole number if necessary.

• 10 pounds

• 11 pounds

• 12 pounds

• 13 pounds

A company has 200 employees, and 30% of them are part-time. If 20% of the part-time employees are planning to leave, how many part-time employees will remain?

• 48

• 56

• 60

• 44

Everyone at Ethan's school wore either brown or yellow for school spirit day. 74 out of the 100 students at the school wore brown. What percentage of the students wore brown?

• 26%

• 26

• 74

• 74%

You are downloading a program onto your computer that is 85 megabytes. As you are working, you notice that only 60% of the program has been downloaded so far. How many megabytes of the program have been downloaded so far?

• 48 megabytes

• 51 megabytes

• 54 megabytes

• 56 megabytes