Percent Word Problems

The students in Chad's class got to choose between pizza and burgers for the celebration on the last day of school. 60% of the students picked the pizza. If there are 40 students in all at Chad's class, how many students preferred the pizza?

___ students preferred pizza

To celebrate the first day of school, Samir brought in a tray of caramel brownies and walnut brownies. He brought 50 brownies in all. 39 of the brownies were caramel. What percentage of the brownies were caramel? Write your answer using a percent sign (%).

49 out of the 70 people in a company meeting were managers. What percentage of the meeting attendees were managers?

Write your answer using a percent sign (%).

The lunch choices last Friday were mushroom or pepperoni pizza. The cafeteria made 15 pizzas in all, 80% of which were mushroom pizzas. How many mushroom pizzas did the cafeteria make?

____ mushroom pizzas

At the craft store, Clare bought a bag of green and red marbles. She received 4 green marbles and 16 red marbles. What percentage of the marbles were green? Write your answer using a percent sign (%).

There are 234 empty seats and 366 occupied seats on a train. What percentage of the seats on the train are empty?

Write your answer using a percent sign (%).

Harold's computer hard drive has 131.25 GB of free space, which is about 17.5% of the capacity of his hard drive. What is the capacity of the hard drive in GB?

An auto insurance company pays 12%

commission to its agents for each new insurance

policy they sell. How much commission does an

agent make on a $1,000 policy?

Bill paid $35.99 in tax on a laptop that cost $449.99. About what percent sales tax did Bill pay? (round to the nearest whole percent)

In a survey of 2,400 people who owned a certain type of​ car, 480 said they would buy that type of car again. What percent of the people surveyed were satisfied with the​ car?