Converting Fractions and Percents Word Problems

Solving percent proportion word problems: A shirt that originally cost $40 is on sale for 25% off. What is the sale price of the shirt?

• $35

• $25

• $30

• $45

Converting between fractions, decimals, and percents: Convert 0.75 to a fraction and a percent.

• 2/5, 50%

• 3/4, 75%

• 4/5, 80%

• 1/3, 25%

Converting between fractions, decimals, and percents: Convert 45% to a fraction and a decimal.

• 4/9, 0.54

• 3/8, 0.63

• 9/20, 0.45

• 5/11, 0.41

Using percent proportions to solve real-life problems: If a car originally cost $20,000 and is now selling for 15% off, what is the sale price of the car?

• $18,500

• $17,000

• $16,000

• $19,500

The ratio used to find percent is...

• part/whole = %/100

• part/whole = 100 / %

• whole/part= %/ 100

15 out of 25 boys chose to go swimming at camp. What percent is that?

• 15%

• 25%

• 55%

• 60%

Using percent proportions to solve real-life problems: If you scored 85% on a test with 50 questions, how many questions did you answer correctly?

• 40

• 30

• 45

• 43

Solving percent proportion word problems: If 20% of the students in a class are girls, and there are 30 students in total, how many girls are there?

• 10

• 40

• 6

• 25

Finding the percent of a number: What is 15% of 200?

• 25

• 30

• 40

• 20

In a store-closing sale, a department store offers 50% discount on the original prices. What is the fractional discount?

• 1/4

• 3/8

• 1/2

• 2/5