Solving Proportions and Proportion Word Problems

Solving percent proportion word problems: The price of a computer is $800, which is 20% off the original price. What is the original price of the computer?

• $700

• $500

• $1000

• $600

Using percent proportions to solve real-life problems: If a car originally cost $20,000 and is now selling for 15% off, what is the sale price of the car?

• $18,500

• $17,000

• $16,000

• $19,500

Using percent proportions to solve real-life problems: If you scored 85% on a test with 50 questions, how many questions did you answer correctly?

• 40

• 30

• 45

• 43

Two ratios that are equal are called

• problems

• fractions

• proportions

When solving a proportion the first step is

• divide

• write a word label

• solve for the variable

What would the proportion look like for the following example? 12 girls have brown eyes and 10 girls have blue eyes.If 72 girls have brown eyes, how many have blue eyes?

• 5

• 15

• 4

What is the ratio of strawberries to the total if there are 20 strawberries and 35 grapes?

• 20:35

• 35:20

• 20:55

At Tim Horton's the number of cups of coffee sold to hot chocolate is 100 to 5. If there are 2,000 cups of coffee sold, how many cups of hot chocolate are sold?

• 10

• 100

• 40,000

Jackson, Avery, and Rohan are running a small bakery. They have a popular cookie recipe that uses 2 cups of flour to make a dozen cookies. They received an order for 3 dozen of these cookies. How many cups of flour will they need to fulfill this order?

• 8 cups

• 6 cups

• 2 cups

• 4 cups