Percent Proportions

Solving Percent Problems Using Proportions

Learning Objective:
Learn to find the missing value in a percent problem.

Multiple Choice

What is 40% of 230?

• 92
• 9200
• 9.20
• 575

Multiple Choice

The movie theater has 250 seats. 225 seats were sold for the current showing. What percent of seats are sold?

• 10%

• 20%

• 80%

• 90%

Multiple Choice

34% of what number is 51?

• 69

• 71

• 150

• 196

Multiple Choice

8 is what percent of 20?

• 40%
• 20%
• 250%
• 2.5%

Multiple Choice

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%

Multiple Choice

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