Percentages

What is 12.5% as a decimal?

• 0.125

• 12.5

What does the term "Percent" mean?

• a ratio that shows a part out of one hundred

• divide by 100

• every cent

• how many cents

• times 100

How do you find 50% of any number?

• Multiply by 50

• Divide by 50

• Divide by 2

• Subtract 50

• Subtract by 2

You read 50% of a book. This means that you have read...

• the whole book

• a quarter of the book

• half of the book

• two books

• nothing read at all

Tom saves 50% of his paycheck. If his pay is $148, how much will he save?

• $148

• $70

• $50

• $74

• $296

What is 50% of 86?

• 34

• 43

• 17

• 27

• 172

If one fourth of the students in class are female, then that is ___ of the students in class.

• 100%

• 50%

• 0%

• 25%

• 75%

• 15%

• 25%

• 55%

• 20%

• 20%

25% of Mrs. Bennett's class wore red one day. If the class has 28 students, how many wore red?

• 4

• 7

• 14

• 21

• 28

What is 25% of 500?

• 100

• 125

• 225

• 250

• 115