Ten Percent of a Number

​Working with Percents like a Proportion

Multiple Choice

What does the word percent mean?

• part out of 10

• part out of 100

• part out of 1

• part out of 1000

Finding Percents of a Number:Method One

Multiple Choice

What is 9% of 50?

(Remember: Is/Of)

• 4.5

• 45

• .45

• .045

Multiple Choice

There are a total of 520 students in Grady Elementary.

65% of them ride the bus. How many students ride the bus?

(Remember: Part/Total)

• 338 students

• 65 students

• 500 students

• 585 students

• 455 students

Multiple Choice

Martin's class has 28 students in it.

25% of those students are home sick today.

How many students are home sick?

• 4 students

• 11 students

• 13 students

• 7 students

Multiple Choice

What does the word "percent" mean?

• Half of something

• Out of 50

• Out of 100

• 100% of something

Multiple Choice

The car I want to buy costs $36,000. The company wants me to give them 20% of that right now. How much money do I need to give them right now?

• $720,000

• $7,200

Multiple Choice

Michael Jordan was great! But, he still missed about 40% of the shots he took. If he took 25,000 shots then how many did he miss?

• 10,000

• 1,000,000

• 1,000