Percent of a Number Proportions

Convert to a percent:

What percent of 15 is 12?

What is 25% of 56?

162 is 90% of what?

Pacino worked 8 hours out of the day.

Which proportion could you use to find the percent of the day he was working?

(Hint: There are 24 hours in a day.)

Nyla took a math test and got 12 correct and 3 incorrect answers.

Which proportion shows how you could find the percent of wrong answers?

(Hint: 12 correct and 3 incorrect answers makes 15 total.)

In a percent proportion, One ratio compares a ​ (a)   of a quantity to the ​ (b)   .

The new bottle of sanitizer has 87.5 ounces. This is how many PERCENT OF THE ORIGINAL?