Find a Percent from Part and Whole

Determine if you are finding the part, percent, or whole:

12 is 50% of what number?

• Part

• Percent

• Whole

Which proportion matches the following:

34% of what number is 51?

Which proportion matches the following:

What is 90% of 250?

Which proportion matches the following:

2 is 10% of what number?

Which proportion represents the following word problem:
The movie theater has 250 seats. 225 seats were sold for the current showing. What percent of seats are sold?

Write an equation for the following:
 Fifty is 15% of what number?

Write an equation for the following:

Find 9% of $10,000.

Write an equation for:
33 is what percent of 100?

Which equation matches the following: 3 is what percent of 600?

Use the percent proportion or percent equation to answer the following:

Sarah earns $20 in total, each day working after school. She spent 30% of her daily earnings on Monday. How much money did she spend on Monday?

• $1.40

• $6

• $0.60

• $14