Lesson 11: Percentage Contexts | Unit 4: Proportional Relationships and Percentages

Multiple Choice

A car dealership pays $8,350 for a car. They mark up the price by 17.4% to get the retail price. What is the retail price of the car at this dealership?

• $9,810.90

• $9,800.00

• $9,795.90

• $9,785.90

Multiple Choice

A store has a 20%-off sale on pants. With this discount, the price of one pair of pants before tax is $15.20. What was the original price of the pants?

• $3.04

• $12.16

• $18.24

• $19.00

Multiple Choice

Lin is shopping for a couch with her dad and hears him ask the salesperson, “How much is your commission?” The salesperson says that her commission is $$5\frac12\%$$ of the selling price. How much commission will the salesperson earn by selling a couch for $495?

• $27.23
• $40.75
• $32.50
• $15.00

Multiple Choice

Lin is shopping for a couch with her dad and hears him ask the salesperson, “How much is your commission?” The salesperson says that her commission is $$5\frac12\%$$ of the selling price. How much money will the store get from the sale of the couch if the selling price is $1000?

• $945
• $975
• $950
• $900

Multiple Choice

A furniture store pays a wholesale price for a mattress. Then, the store marks up the retail price to 150% of the wholesale price. Later, they put the mattress on sale for 50% off of the retail price. A customer just bought the mattress on sale and paid $1,200. What was the retail price of the mattress before the discount?

• 3000
• 2400
• 1200
• 1800

Multiple Choice

A furniture store pays a wholesale price for a mattress. Then, the store marks up the retail price to 150% of the wholesale price. Later, they put the mattress on sale for 50% off of the retail price. A customer just bought the mattress on sale and paid $1,200. What was the wholesale price, before the markup?

• 2000
• 1600
• 800
• 1200

Open Ended

A store is having a 25% off sale on all shirts. Explain two different ways to calculate the sale price for a shirt that normally costs $24.

Multiple Choice

Select the word from the following list that best describes the situation: You deposit money in a savings account, and every year the amount of money in the account increases by 2.5%.

• Interest

• Tax

• Discount

• Commission

• Markup

Multiple Choice

Select the word from the following list that best describes the situation: For every car sold, a car salesman is paid 6% of the car’s price.

• Tip or gratuity

• Markup

• Discount

• Tax

• Commission

Multiple Choice

Select the word from the following list that best describes the situation: Someone who eats at a restaurant pays an extra 20% of the food price. This extra money is kept by the person who served the food.

• Tax

• Markup

• Tip or gratuity

• Discount

• Commission