How to Find the Percent

A student earned a grade of 70% on a math test that had 10 problems. How many problems on this test did the student answer correctly?

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CCSS.6.RP.A.3C

A student answered 46 problems on a test correctly and received a grade 88%. How many problems were on the test, if all the problems were worth the same number of points?

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

David bought a car for 65% of the original price of $8500. What did he pay for the car?

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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)

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

• 15

• 25

• 19

• 4

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

• 3%

• 30%

• 10%

• 70%

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

• 15%

• 20%

• 45%

• 60%

Joey has 3 out of 20 coins in his collection. What percent does he have?

• 7%

• 15%

• 20%

• 30%