Percent Word Problems Proportions

Dominic answered 43 of 50 questions correctly on his test. What percent represents the number of questions he got correct?

• 7%

• 14%

• 86%

• 93%

There are 28 students in class. 75% of them took the bus to school. How many students took the bus to school?

• 21 students

• 21%

• 75 students

• 28 students

75% of what number is 15?

• 11

• 45

• 20

• 5

4 is what percent of 20?

• 20%

• 80%

• 5%

• 4%

80% of what number is 32?

• 40

• 250

• 26

• 4

9 is 3% of what number?

• 30

• 33

• 3

• 300

At a shelter, 15% of the dogs are puppies. If there are 60 dogs at the shelter, how many are puppies?

• 400

• 25

• 9

• 42

Carl has 200 songs downloaded on his phone. Of these songs, 24 are country songs. What percent of Carl's songs are country?

• 48%

• 12%

• 8%

• 36%

Forty children in an after school club went to the carnival. This is 25% of the children in the club. How many children are in the club?

• 10

• 160

• 200

• 900

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