Applying Percents

21 students prefer red peppermint candies rather than green spearmint candies. If this represents 35% of the middle school students, how many total students are in the middle school?

• 110 students

• 45 students

• 60 students

• 35 students

A Christmas ballet theater has a total 120 seats and 42 of those seats

have already been sold.

What percent of seats are still empty?

• 35%

• 65%

• 40%

• 60%

Write 0.5% as a fraction in simplest form.

• 0.005

• 5/1000

• 1/200

• 1/20

Write 46 3/4% as a decimal.

• 46.34

• 46.75

• 0.4675

• 4.675

A newlywed couple spends $3000 a year towards a new car payment. What percent of their yearly $50,000 income is spent on this car?

• 6%

• 60%

• 4%

• 16.8%

Some of the 2nd grade classes in the east side Memorial feeder schools are going on a field trip to attend a play at Memorial. There are 320 total 2nd graders but only 55% of them are attending the play. How many buses will be needed to transport the students going to the play if one bus holds 45 students.

• 3.9 buses

• 4 buses

• 3 buses

• 5 buses

Good Shepherd students get a 15% discount on UE basketball tickets. If a general admission ticket costs $20 at the door, how much would a Good Shepherd student have to pay for purchasing 3 tickets with the discount?

• $54

• $9

• $17

• $51

You are going to purchase 14 hair scrunchies as a gift for all the girls in 7th grade. Each scrunchie costs $3.50. How much will your total purchase be if a 7.5% sales tax is added when you make this purchase?

• $49

• $52.68

• $39.50

• $52.64

What percent of 22.5 is 24.75?

• 110%

• 10%

• 91%

• 89%

Discount is ____________ from the price.

• added
• divided
• subtracted
• Mr. Ed is very old