Find a Percent from Part and Whole Notes

Shawna earns $550 per week. She gets 15% deducted for taxes. How much money does she pay in taxes each week?

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CCSS.6.RP.A.3C

At a bake sale students sold 145 chocolate chip cookies, 95 oatmeal cookies, and 87 sugar cookies. What is the percent of the cookies sold was oatmeal? (2 steps)

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CCSS.6.RP.A.3C

There are 32 students in a class. Nine of those students are women. What percent are men? (2 steps)

The school softball team played 75 games and won 50 of them. What percent of the games did they lose? (2 steps)

60% of the employees at a high school school work as teachers. There are a total of 420 employees. How many teachers work at the school?

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CCSS.6.RP.A.3C

Sally got 22 questions wrong on her quiz that had 40 questions on it. What is the percentage of the questions she got wrong?

• 45%

• 55%

• 32%

• 95%

In a class of 30 kids, 3 forgot to get their report cards signed. What percent is that?

• 3%

• 30%

• 10%

• 70%

Eric earned 60 points on his last test. If there were 75 possible points, what was his percent grade?

• 20%

• 40%

• 60%

• 80%

Henry has 15 lawns mowed out of a total of 60 lawns. What percent is that?

• 15

• 25

• 19

• 4

15 out of 25 boys chose to go swimming at camp. What percent is that?

• 15%

• 20%

• 45%

• 60%