Proportions Word Problem

75% of students in Grace's class are 60 inches or taller. If there are 20 students in the class, how many are SHORTER THAN 60 INCHES?

• 45

• 15

• 5

• 75

45 people buy a ticket to the football game. Of these 60% ate nachos. How many people DO NOT eat nachos.

• 27 people

• 18 people

• 45 people

• 60 people

There are 40 students in a class and 30% of these students passed their history test. What number of these students passed the test?

What part of the percent proportion are you missing? (What is this question asking you to find?)

• Percent

• Part

• Whole

Ms. Smith bought a box of 10 cupcakes. She ate 30% of the cupcakes. How many did she eat?

**What is your WHOLE? (total number of cupcakes)**

• 10

• 30

70% of the students at a school went on a field trip to an Aquarium. If there were 350 students on the trip, how many students attend that school?

A painter has finished painting 45% of a really long fence. If she has painted 90 feet so far, how long is the entire fence?

A fruit stand’s most popular fruit is strawberries, which account for 35% of their total sales. If they usually sell $70 worth of strawberries each day, what would their usual daily income be?

If a car’s gas tank has 15 gallons of gas in it, and the gauge says the tank is 75% full, then how many gallons can the entire tank hold?

If you can buy four bunches of purple grapes for $10, then how many can you buy with $25?

Solve the proportion.

• 1.6 bunches

• 10 bunches

• 62.5 bunches

• 12 bunches

Emily's original painting has a width of 3 inches and a height of 4 inches. She enlarged the size of the painting so that it has a width of 15 inches. What is the new height? Which of these proportions correctly represents the situation?