Solving Proportions with Percents

Solving percent proportion word problems: A shirt that originally cost $40 is on sale for 25% off. What is the sale price of the shirt?

• $35

• $25

• $30

• $45

Solving percent proportion word problems: The price of a computer is $800, which is 20% off the original price. What is the original price of the computer?

• $700

• $500

• $1000

• $600

Using percent proportions to solve real-life problems: If a car originally cost $20,000 and is now selling for 15% off, what is the sale price of the car?

• $18,500

• $17,000

• $16,000

• $19,500

Using percent proportions to solve real-life problems: If you scored 85% on a test with 50 questions, how many questions did you answer correctly?

• 40

• 30

• 45

• 43

Solving percent proportion word problems: If 20% of the students in a class are girls, and there are 30 students in total, how many girls are there?

• 10

• 40

• 6

• 25

Finding the percent of a number: If 40 is 20% of a number, what is the number?

• 150

• 100

• 250

• 200

What percent is in color?

• 3%

• 30%

• 33%

• 300%

Which of these proportional equations would you use to find the missing pieces of a percent problem, using the words "OF and IS"?

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26 is 5% of what number?

• 3

• 5

• 25.95

• 520

What percent is in color?

• 620%

• 1/2

• 60%

• 62%