WorksheetsFinding Percent of a Number Word Problems
Total questions: 20
Worksheet time: 20mins
Solving percent proportion word problems: A shirt that originally cost $40 is on sale for 25% off. What is the sale price of the shirt?
$35
$25
$30
$45
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
Finding the percent of a number: What is 15% of 200?
25
30
40
20
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%
You are downloading a program onto your computer that is 85 megabytes. As you are working, you notice that only 60% of the program has been downloaded so far. How many megabytes of the program have been downloaded so far?
48 megabytes
51 megabytes
54 megabytes
56 megabytes
Dr. Hall files 320 insurance claims every month. If 5% of those claims are rejected, how many claims are rejected?
15
64
16
56
In a survey of 350 adults, 10% knew how to ride a hover board. How many adults knew how to ride the hover board?
35 adults
300 adults
100 adults
45 adults
While mining, Jason found a large metal bar that weighed 40 ponds. Jason was also able to determine that the bar contained 30% gold. How many pounds of gold are in the metal bar? Round your answer to the nearest whole number if necessary.
10 pounds
11 pounds
12 pounds
13 pounds
In a graduation class of 200 students, 20% of students do not know how to drive. How many students KNOW how to drive? ** READ CAREFULLY and there is an extra step.***
40 students
100 students
160 students
50 students
Jax has a toy car collection of 400 toy cars. He keeps 48% of the cars on his wall. How many cars does he keep on his wall?
833 cars
12 cars
195 cars
192 cars
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
Finding the percent of a number: If 40 is 20% of a number, what is the number?
150
100
250
200
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
When finding the percent "of" a quantity, the signal word of indicates you perform which operation?
addition
multiplication
subtraction
division
What is 10% of 15?
5
1.56
2.5
15
What is 50% of 32?
14
15
16
17
What is 25% of 16?
25
16
4
8
What is 30% of 50?
16
16.3
17.4
15
A student earned an 80% on a math test that had 25 problems. How many problems on the test did the student answer correctly?
20
21
18
25
