Percents Word Problems

Express the decimal as a percent

26 is 5% of what number?

• 3

• 5

• 25.95

• 520

What percent is in color?

• 620%

• 1/2

• 60%

• 62%

Which of these proportional equations would you use to find the missing pieces of a percent problem, using the words "Part and Whole"?

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Ella has 40 CDs in her music collection. 75% of her CDs are rock music. How many rock CDs does she have?

• 30

• 53

• 10

• 16

Jax has a toy car collection of 400 toy cars. He keeps 48% of the cars on his wall. How many cars does he keep on his wall?

• 833 cars

• 12 cars

• 195 cars

• 192 cars

While mining, Jason found a large metal bar that weighed 40 ponds. Jason was also able to determine that the bar contained 30% gold. How many pounds of gold are in the metal bar? Round your answer to the nearest whole number if necessary.

• 10 pounds

• 11 pounds

• 12 pounds

• 13 pounds

You are downloading a program onto your computer that is 85 megabytes. As you are working, you notice that only 60% of the program has been downloaded so far. How many megabytes of the program have been downloaded so far?

• 48 megabytes

• 51 megabytes

• 54 megabytes

• 56 megabytes

Which of these proportional equations would you use to find the missing pieces of a percent problem, using the words "OF and IS"?

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What is 20% of 75?

• 15

• 60

• 6

• 1.5