A baby alligator is 13 inches long. A year-old alligator is 95% longer than the baby.

How long is the year-old alligator?

Today, everything at The Candy Factory on sale. The store offers a 30% discount.

The regular price of a 5-foot-long gummy worm is $27. What is the discount price?

Today, everything at The Candy Factory on sale. The store offers a 30% discount.

The discount price of a 2 lb Pixie Stix is $14. What is the regular price?

Mrs. Dalton is paying for Mrs. Nielsen’s $35 meal. She has a 25%-off coupon for the meal. After the discount, an 8% sales tax is applied.

What does Mrs. Dalton pay for the meal? Explain or show your reasoning.

John sells ocean front property in Arizona.

He earns a commission. He makes 7% of the amount he sells. Last week, he sold $700 worth of property. How much was his commission?

The original cost of a one-acre lot was $1200. John sold it for $1500. What percentage was the markup?

John earns $17.00 per hour selling property. The company offers him a raise—a 15% increase per hour. After the raise, how much will John make per hour?

Tim estimated that he played video games for 23 hours over Christmas break. When he looked back at his time off, he realized he played 40% longer than that. How many hours did Tim spend playing video games?

Mrs. Nielsen is 22 years old. Her students guessed that she was 40 years old. What was the student’s percent error?

Mrs. Heimke assigned her students to read 120 pages for homework. Mrs. Nielsen convinced her to decrease the pages read by 35 percent. How many pages did Mrs. Heimke’s students have to read?