Ready Classroom Percents

What number is 17% of 50?

12 is 40% of what number?

88 is what percent of 160?

Lacey bought a new purse that originally cost $25 and is on sale for $15. Find the percent of change in the price in the purse.

• Decrease of 40%

• Decrease of 10%

• Decrease of 30%

• Decrease of 20%

The attendance for the basketball game was estimated to be 15,000 people but 12,500 people actually attended. What was the percent error?

• 16.67%

• 20%

• 2500%

• 80%

An archaeologist estimated that a fossil was 520 years old. It was actually 500 years old. What was the percent error?

• 4%

• 20%

• 3.8%

• none of these

26 is 5% of what number?

• 3

• 5

• 25.95

• 520

Write .506 as a percent.

• 5.06%

• 506%

• 50.6%

• 500.6%

What percent is in color?

• 620%

• 1/2

• 60%

• 62%

What percent is in color?

• 3%

• 30%

• 33%

• 300%