Percent Proportions

Which of the following proportions would you use to solve this problem?

"What is 10% of 50?"

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?

Which proportion matches the following: 2 is 10% of what number?

Which proportion matches the following:

What is 90% of 250?

Which proportion matches the following:

34% of what number is 51?

49 is 28% of what number?

The movie theater has 250 seats. 225 seats were sold for the current showing. What percent of seats are empty?

• 10%

• 20%

• 80%

• 90%

What is 90% of 130 inches? 

• 117 inches

• 120 inches

• 118 inches

• 115 inches

Joe and Pete surveyed a group of students and found that 20% like Takis. If 60 students like Takis, how many did they survey?

• 300

• 240

• 60

• 600

What percent of 38 is 15?

• 39.5%

• 41.5%

• 42.6%

• 38.9%