Percent Proportion Finding the Part

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

A person ate 2400 calories in a day. Of these, 36% came from fat. How many calories came from fat?

• 984

• 830

• 1142

• 864

Determine if you are finding the part, percent, or whole:

What is 20% of 60?

• Part

• Percent

• Whole

Determine if you are finding the part, percent, or whole:

12 is 50% of what number?

• Part

• Percent

• Whole

Determine if you are finding part, whole or percent for the following word problem:

A Chicago Cubs baseball cap costs a total of $28. Michael has a coupon that will save him 25% of the price. How much will the coupon save him?

• part

• whole

• percent

Write .506 as a percent.

• 5.06%

• 506%

• 50.6%

• 500.6%

Which proportion matches the following:

34% of what number is 51?

Which proportion matches the following:

2 is 10% of what number?

Which proportion represents the following word problem:
The movie theater has 250 seats. 225 seats were sold for the current showing. What percent of seats are sold?

Write an equation for the following:
 Fifty is 15% of what number?

Write an equation for the following:

Find 9% of $10,000.