Model With Percents

Which percent is equivalent or equal to the fraction in the picture?

• 89%

• 100%

• 189%

• 11%

Answer explanation

A percent, or percentage, is a special fraction that always has 100 as the denominator. Because the bottom of a percent is always 100, we don’t even write it. We remove the 100 and put a % instead. 89/100 = 89%.

There is one pizza and two people are going to split it in half. How would you convert one half into a fraction, decimal and percent?

• 1/2  ,  0.5  ,  50%

• 1/4  ,  0.25  ,  25%

• 3/4  , 0.75  ,  75%

• \1/20  ,  0.05 ,  5%

Which percent names the amount of the grid that is shaded?

• 3.4%

• 14%

• 34%

• 43%

Select all fractions equivalent to 40%.

• 4/100

• 2/5

• 2/50

• 40/100

• 4/10

What is 1% as a ratio?

• 1/100

• 1/10

• 1/20

• 1/1000

What percent is this? ____%

What percent is this? ____%

(type numbers only)

What is 87% written as a fraction?

• 87

Write 45% as a simplified fraction.

Change .98 into a percent.

• 98%

• 9.8% 

• 980%

• .98%