Percents Math

What is a rate?

• The adding of interest charged or paid

• The percent of interest charged or paid

• The subtracting of interest charged or paid

Sales tax rate is the ________of an amount that is added to the cost of an item

• percent

• principal

• interest

What is a discount?

• The amount added from the normal price of an item-another term for markdown

• The amount subtracted from the normal price of an item-another term for markdown

• The amount multiplied from the normal price of an item-another term for markdown

• Counting backwards.

Sales tax, when you buy something, is an amount that is set by the government and______________onto the original price

• rate

• subtracted

• multiplied

• added

Which answer choice shows the correct fraction, decimal and percent of the shaded portion on the grid?

• 0.14, 14%, 14/10

• 0.14, 14%, 7/50

• 0.86, 86%, 86/10

• 0.86, 86%, 43/50

Compare 35% to 3/8

• 35% < 3/8

• 3/8 > 35%

• 3/8 = 35%

Order 75%, 9/10 and 0.09 from Greatest to Least.

• 75%, 9/10, 0.09

•    0.09, 75%, 9/10

• 9/10, 75%, 0.09

Arrange in order from least to greatest: 80%, .34 , 3/4

• 80%, 3/4, .34

• .34, 3/4, 80%

• .34, 80%, 3/4

• .34, 80%, 3/4

What fraction, decimal and percent is shaded in the image?

• 0.40, 4%, 2/5

• 0.20, 20%, 1/5

• 0.60, 60%, 3/5

• .80, 80%, 4/5

What does this grid represent if written as a percent?

• 115%

• 11.55%

• 1.15%

• 0.115%