Find the Whole from a Part and a Percent

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?

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: A person ate 2400 calories in a day. Of these, 36% came from fat. How many calories came from fat?

• 984

• 830

• 1142

• 864

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

The hockey team won 63 out of the 84 games it played this year. What percent of the games did the team win?

• 30%

• 67%

• 75%

• 80%