Percent Word Problems

A soccer team played 32 games. If they won 25% of them, how many games did each team win?

Use the percent proportion or percent equation to answer the following:

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

15 of the students in a history class passed a History test. If these students are 75% of all the students in the class, how many students are in the history class? Round you answer to the nearest whole number if necessary.

• 20 students

• 11 students

• 32 students

• 24 students

At a construction job for a store, 24 painters were tasked with painting the interior. These painters made up 75% of the painting crew, so how many painters in all worked on this job? Round your answer to the nearest whole number if necessary.

• 20 painters

• 32 painters

• 11 painters

• 24 painters

A student earned a grade of 80% on a math test that had 30 problems.  How many problems on this test did the student answer correctly?

• 17 problems
• 24 problems
• 20 problems
• 18 problems

Shirley spelled 12 of her 15 spelling words correctly on the test. What percent grade did Shirley get on the test?

• 80

• 1.25%

• 80%

• 60%

You got 23 correct on a quiz that was out of 25 points. What percent did you get correct?

• 1.09%

• 48%

• 47.9%

• 92%

A class of sixty voted for class president. 30% voted for Brad and 70% voted for Jane. How many votes did the winner get?

• 18

• 30

• 42

• 60

Bill is in a class of 15 boys and 35 girls. What percent of the class are girls?

• 30%

• 20

• 70%

• 35

The city council voted on a new tax. The council has 20 members and 20% of the council members voted in favor of the new tax. How many members voted in favor of the tax?

• 16 council members 
• 4 council members 
• 20% of the members 
• 100