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Contents

Introduction ........................................................................ 5

Ratios
Ratios 1 .............................................................................. 6
Ratios ................................................................................. 7
Ratios 2 .............................................................................. 8
More on Ratios ................................................................... 9

Proportions
Proportions ......................................................................... 10
Proportions ......................................................................... 11
Problems with Ratios ......................................................... 12
Proportion Problems .......................................................... 13
Ratios and Proportion ........................................................ 14
More on Ratios and Proportions ........................................ 15

Problems with Parts and Ratios

Find Whole From Part ........................................................ 16
Part or Whole? ................................................................... 17
Word Problems with Parts 1 .............................................. 18
Word Problems with Parts 2 .............................................. 19
Scaling ............................................................................... 20
Similar Figures ................................................................... 21

Percent
Understanding Percent ...................................................... 22
Fractions/Percents ............................................................. 23
Percents and Decimals ...................................................... 24
Finding Percent of Number ................................................ 25
Mental Math in Percent Problems ..................................... 26
Fraction, Percent and Decimals ...................................... 27
Ratios and Percents .......................................................... 28
Which Part? ....................................................................... 29
What Part and Percent ...................................................... 30
Percent Fact Sheet ............................................................ 31
Using Decimals in Percent Problems ................................ 32
Using Percent Proportions ................................................. 33
Practicing with Percent ...................................................... 34

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Percent Applications
Circle Graphs ..................................................................... 35
Circle Graphs and Percents ............................................... 36
Fractions and Decimals in Measurement .......................... 37
Percent of Change ............................................................. 38
Percent .................. ............................................................ 39
Percent of Change ............................................................. 40
Simple Interest ................................................................... 41
More Percent Problems ..................................................... 42

Proportional Relationships and Slope

Proportional Relationships and Slope 1 ............................. 43
Proportional Relationships and Slope 2 ............................. 44
Proportional Relationships and Slope 3 ............................. 45
Proportional Relationship or Not? ....................................... 46

More from Math Mammoth ................................................. 47

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Introduction
Math Mammoth Ration, Proportion & Percent Worksheets Collection includes
worksheets from Math Mammoth Grade 6, Grade 7, and Algebra 1 worksheets
collections. The grade-level worksheets packages were originally created for and in
collaboration with SpiderSmart, Inc. tutoring company.

The worksheets in this book have been pulled out of those aforementioned
collections to create a separate, handy package for those who would need
worksheets or a workbook concentrating on various ratio, proportion, and percent
topics in grades 6-8.

This could be useful for example in remedial teaching, in adult teaching centers, or
just reviewing.

In this collection, the worksheets are not organized by grade level by by topic (see
the table of contents).

The first section of this collections starts out with ratio-related problems. Then come
proportions, including lots of word problems. Continuing on comes a section on part-
related problems. These word problems typically include finding a fractional part, or
finding the whole when part is given.

The next section is on percent. Various worksheets practice finding percent of a

number, including mentally. Word problems are numerous. The next section has
worksheets about various percent applications, such as circle graphs, discounts, and
simple interest.

The last section in this collection contains worksheets about slope and how it relates
to a proportional relationship between two variables. These are naturally geared
towards pre-algebra or algebra.

I hope the problems will fit your needs.

I wish you success with math teaching!

Maria Miller, the author

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Ratios 1
1. Write the ratios.

a. ratio of boys to girls d. ratio of circles to squares

b. ratio of boys to all e. ratio of squares to all

c. ratio of girls to all f. ratio of squares to hearts to circles

2. Look at the picture of the triangles and circles on the right. Assuming that the ratio of
triangles to circles remains the same, answer the questions:
How many circles would there be How many triangles would there be
a. for 9 triangles d. for 8 circles
b. for 15 triangles e. for 20 circles
c. for 300 triangles f. for 1,800 circles

3. Look at the picture of the squares, circles, and hearts. Assuming the ratio of squares to circles
to hearts remains the same, fill in the blanks on the table below.
Squares Circles Hearts All
3 1 2 6
30
72
120

4. The ratio of green shirts to blue shirts is 3:5.

a. What is the ratio of green shirts to all shirts?

b. If there are 15 green shirts, how many blue shirts are there?

c. If there are 80 shirts in all, how many of them are green and how many blue?

5. In a school there are 768 students and 32 teachers. What is the ratio teachers : students ?
Express it in lowest terms.

6. In special education, the teacher : student ratio is 1:13. How many teachers are needed for
1,700 special education students?

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Ratios
1. Write the ratios.
a. ratio of stars to triangles
b. ratio of triangles to flowers
c. ratio of flowers to all

2. Assuming the ratio of stars to triangles to flowers remains the same, how many...
a. stars would there be for 12 triangles?
b. flowers would there be for 20 stars?
c. triangles would there be for 77 objects in all?

3. Write the ratios in the lowest terms.

a. 14 umbrellas for 40 people b. 5 boats for 265 people c. 500 miles per 12 hours

4. The ratio of white flowers : red flowers : blue flowers is 3:2:1.

a. If there are 72 flowers total, how many of those are red? How many are blue?
b. If there are 14 red flowers, how many white and blue flowers are there?

5. There are 16 red, 10 white, 4 pink, and 4 yellow roses in a bouquet.

a. Write the ratio of red:white:pink:yellow roses in the lowest terms.
b. Assuming this ratio remains the same, if there were 10 yellow roses,
how many white roses would there be?

6. Find the unit rate. Give your answer as a decimal.

a. $15.45 per 5 kg b. 380 students: 17 teachers c. 16 hits : 40 at-bats

7. Are the ratios equal? If not, which one is greater?

a. 12 hits for 34 at-bats b. $88 : 5 hr c. 17 people out of 45

10 hits for 28 at-bats $120 : 7 hr 39 people out of 100

8. Usually Ted can knock all the bowling pins down 2 times out of 5 tries.
a. Ted practices 60 times and tries to knock down all the pins.
How many times can he expect to knock them all down?
b. In a certain competition, Ted was able to knock down all the pins 34 times out of 78 tries.
Did he do better, worse, or the same as his average?

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Ratios 2
1. Fill in the missing number to form an equivalent ratio.
3 4 8 960 7
a. = b. = c. = d. =
35 7 5 220 1,200 11 462

2. Fill in the missing numbers to form equivalent ratios.

2 cm $72
a. = = b. = =
30 min 15 min 45 min 8 hr 1 hr 10 hr
1/4 mi $84.40
c. = = d. = =
10 min 1 hr 5 hr 1 hr 8 hr 15 hr

3. The ratio of pencils to dollars remains 4. You get 20 erasers for $1.90. How much
the same. Fill in the table. would 50 erasers cost? 5 erasers? 70 erasers?
Pencils Dollars
1
2
3 0.72
6
7
8

5. A car traveled 345 miles with 15 gallons of gasoline. Fill in the table.
Miles 345
Gallons 1 2 3 4 5 10 15 50

6. A car traveled 348 miles in 6 hours. Fill the table.

Miles 348
Hours 1 2 3 4 5 6 10 20

7. If Jake can ride his bike to a town that is 20 miles away in 45 minutes,
how far can he bike in 1 hour?

8. Shirts are made in the ratio of 1:3:3:1 for the sizes S, M, L, and XL, respectively.
a. What is the ratio of S shirts to all the shirts?
b. For each 1,000 shirts made, how many of them are sizes S, M, L, and XL?

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More on Ratios
1. Are the ratios equal? If not, which one is greater?
a. 2 to 5 b. 16 women out of 100 c. 7:11
7 to 50 3 women out of 25 140:220

2. Express these ratios in lowest terms.

a. 15 out of 100 b. $44 : 4 hr c. 12:21

d. 80:200 e. 520 mi : 12 hr f. 56 for every 100

3. On the average, Scott makes a basket five times out of six shots when he's practicing.
How many baskets can he expect to make when he does 120 shots? 200 shots?

4. In a poll of 840 people, 640 said they liked blue.

a. Express this ratio in lowest terms.
b. Assuming the same ratio holds true in another group of 1000 people, how many of those
can we expect to like blue?

5. Dad's success ratio in guessing the result of a coin toss is 2:3.

a. If a coin is tossed 60 times, how many times can we expect Dad to guess right?
b. Another time Dad guesses right 76 times out of 100 tosses. Can we say he's doing better
than his average, worse than his average, or just exactly as his average?

6. Write the equal ratios.

15 km $6
a. = = b. = =
3 hr 15 min 45 min 45 min 1 hr 15 hr

3/8 in 115 words

c. = = d. = =
1 cm 1m 10 m 1 min 2 min 3 min

7. A car travels at the speed of 80 km/hour. Km 80 100 150 200 500

The ratio of kilometers to hours remains
the same. Fill in the table. Minutes

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Proportions
1. Solve the following proportions by using cross-multiplication.
x 15 17 2
a. = b. =
25 3 214 x

4 9 8 37
c. = d. =
z 12 1.15 y

2. Solve the proportions. Round your answer to meaningful accuracy.

60 words 10,000 words $1.55 $100

a. = b. =
3s x 80 g x

14 mi 100 mi z $4.05
c. = d. =
0.59 gal x 2000 lb 3 lb

3. Write a proportion and solve it.

a. If 7 lb of chicken costs $12, how b. Jack earns $90 for seven hours work.
much would 100 lb cost? In how many hours will he earn $650?

4. A car travels 28 miles for each gallon of gasoline, and a gallon costs $3. Fill in the table.
Miles 1,000
Gallons 1 2 5 10
Dollars $100 $500

5. A man can carry 90 lb. If ten books weigh 27 lb, how many books can the man carry?

6. It took Jack 1 1/2 hours to paint 22 feet of fence. How long will it take him
to paint the rest of the fence, which is 98 feet long?

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Proportions
1. Solve these proportions using cross-multiplying.
3 y 2.8 45
a. = b. =
5 1.5 z 129

5.5 cm 3 $45 w
c. = d. =
z 4 4 hr 9 hr

2. Find the missing numbers to form equivalent ratios.

$4.55 $20 62 mi 200 mi

a. = = b. = =
3 lb 10 lb 2.5 gal 35 gal

3. 25 screws cost $0.56.

a. How much will 240 screws cost?

b. How many screws could you buy for $6?

4. A car traveled 335 miles with 9.5 gallons of gasoline.

a. How far could it travel with 25 gallons of gas?

b. How many gallons of gas would that car use for a 1,200-mile trip?

5. A map has a scale ratio of 1:150,000.

a. How long is the distance in reality if the distance on the map is 4.3 in?

b. How long is the distance on the map if the distance in reality is 25 mi?

6. On a house plan, the scale ratio is 1:20. What are the dimensions of a room on the map
that in reality is 15 1/2 ft by 12 ft? (Give your answer in sensible units.)

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Problems with Ratios

1. Are the ratios equal? If not, indicate which is larger.
a. 7 women in 100 or 24 women in 400 b. 8:450 or 3:120

c. 1 farmer per 2,000 acres or d. $17 for 50 notebooks or

7 farmers per 10,000 acres $45 for 150 notebooks

2. Solve the proportions. (kWh is kilowatt-hour; RN is registered nurse)

75 km 460 km $0.14 $50

a. = b. =
1 hr x hr 1 kWh x kWh

1 doctor x doctors 623.6 RNs 42,600 RNs

c. = d. =
440 people 1000 people 100,000 people x people

3. Jack and Jill started solving the following problem. Solve the proportions they set up.
Did both of them solve it the right way?
An airplane travels at 560 km in 40 minutes. How long will it take to travel 1,600 km?

Jack's solution: Jill's solution:

1600 km x min 560 km 1600 km
= =
560 km 40 min 40 min y min

4. Mr. Banana plants his land in the following ratio:

3 banana : 1 mango : 2 orange. If his farming
area is 500 acres, find how many acres he
should plant with each type of fruit tree.

5. The total workforce of a certain state is

2,214,000 people. Of those, 7 in every 100
people are working in health care. How many
people are working in health care?

6. If dog food costs $0.88 per pound, how much

dog food can you buy with $100?

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Proportion Problems
1. Solve these proportions. Give your answer in sensible units.

7 pages x 1 2 1/4 in.

a. = b. =
1,482 words 10,000 words 50,000 x

17 mi 500 mi z $4.05
c. = d. =
0.67 gal x 1 year 8 hr

2. Solve the problems. In two problems below, the relationship between the two things
that change (variables) is NOT proportional.

a. If 127 grams of sardines cost $1.29, b. Jack earns $42 for four hours of work. How
how much would 1,000 grams cost? much would he earn for 150 hours of work?

c. Three men can dig a ditch in 7.5 hours. d. A box containing 50 identical books
How long would it take for six men to dig weighs 70 kg. How many kilograms
an identical ditch? do three books weigh?

e. When twenty men carry a heavy pipe, each f. It takes Jack 1 1/2 hours to mow a
of them gets a 60-lb load. What would 30 ft x 40 ft yard. How long will it
the load per person be if 15 men carried take him to mow a yard
the same pipe? that is 5,500 sq ft in area?

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Ratios and Proportions

1. The word problem below is solved
in two ways. Continue both solutions. 2x 5x z 500 − z
500 500
A 500-cm stick is to be divided into
two pieces so that the lengths of z 2
(i) 2x + 5x = 500 (ii) =
the pieces are in the ratio 2:5. 500 − z 5
How long are the pieces?

2. Solve the proportions.

4 15 5a −2 x+4 5
a. = b. = c. =
x 55 7 11 5 12

4−x 5 x−2 x+6 −3 3

d. = e. = f. =
x+5 8 12 10 y−9 y+5

3. Jack and Jill shared the salary of $800 so that their salaries were in the ratio 3:7.
Find each person's salary.

4. Mary worked 7 hours and Michael worked 11 hours on a job.

How should they divide the salary of $200?

5. Liz owns 20 acres of a 90-acre plot, and her brother Les owns the rest.
How should they divide a $300 additional tax on the land?

6. Melinda, Marsha, and Joanna paid an extra $35 fee for a suitcase on an airline.
Of its contents, 12 lb was Melinda's, 17 lb was Marsha's, and 21 lb was Joanna's.
How should they divide the fee? (Hint: Use method (i) of problem 1.)

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More on Ratios and Proportions

1. James spent three hours 10 minutes mowing a 2000 sq. ft. lawn.
How long can he expect to spend mowing a 2800 sq. ft. lawn?

2. Ann bicycled 10 miles in 25 minutes. Continuing with the same speed,

how long will it take her to travel another 24 miles?

3. The scale on a house blueprint is 1 inch to 3 feet. How big is the kitchen
on the blueprint, if in reality it is 14 ft x 16 ft?

4. Henry owns 45% of a company, and Jacob owns 55%.

a. How should they divide the $21,500 profit it made?

b. Now they also shared a fee. Henry's share of that ended up being $126.
What was Jacob's share and what was the total fee?

5. The sides of a rectangle are in ratio 11:20

and its perimeter is 248 cm. Find the sides.

6. Of a triangle ABC's angles, angle A is half of angle B,

and angle B is 2/3 of angle C. Find the angles.

7. The volumes of two boxes are in the ratio 4:9. If the dimensions of the smaller
are 2 ft 5 in x 2 ft 5 in x 1 ft 6 in, what is the volume of the larger?

8. A small cube's side is half of the side of a big cube.

In what ratio are their volumes?

9. John's car's gas mileage is 29 miles per gallon of gas, and

Judy's car's is 38 miles per gallon. How much more money
does John spend on gas if they both go on a 350-mile trip?
Assume the price of gas is $2 per gallon (or use the current price).

10. Annette gets paid $350 for a 40-hour work week and Julie gets
paid $320 for a 36-hour work week.
a. Who gets paid more per hour?
b. During a certain week, both of them missed 8 hours of work.
How much should they be paid?

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Find Whole From Part

1. Find the whole, when part is known. Note closely the type of reasoning.

a. 4/5 of John's salary is $880. b. 3/8 of the books in a store is 630 books.
1/5 of his salary is $_______. 1/8 of the books is ________.
His salary is $________. All the books are __________.

c. 30% of a shirt's price is $4.20. d. 17% of the people is 221 people.

10% of the price is________. 1% of the people is _______ people.
The whole price is ________. ________ people in all.

2. Find the whole when a part is known. First, find a smaller part, such as 10% or 1%,
then use that value to find the whole.

a. 2/3 of a number is 48. b. 3/5 of a number is 99. c. 5/8 of a number is 75.

d. 40% of a price is $16. e. 90% of a salary is $1080. f. 70% of the people

is 161 people.

g. 8% of a price is $2.40. h. 45% of the people i. 19% of the water was 1167 L.
is 720 people.

3. Now x represents the WHOLE amount, and it is divided into various parts. Find x.

a. b.

c. d.

e. f.

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Part or Whole?
1. Solve the problems. It helps to think whether you need to find the part or the whole.

a. Edward's $95 loan payment takes up b. Angie gives 18% of her $1,300 salary to
13% of his salary. What is his salary? charity. How many dollars does she give?
I know the part, and need to find I know the whole. The part is 18%
the whole. 1% of his salary is of $1300, or 0.18 x $1300, which
$95/13 = ________. is ________.
100% of his salary is ________.

c. For working overtime, John got paid $450, d. A farmer gets paid $0.21 for a pound of
which was 40% of his total earnings that tomatoes, which ends up being only 7%
month. What are his wages? of the price of tomatoes in supermarkets.
Find the supermarket price.

e. A state spends 21% of their budget for f. For a coming school year, a state is
education. If the education spending was spending $635 million more for education
$8.7 billion, how much was the budget? than during the previous school year. This
is an 8% increase. How much did the state
spend for education the previous year?

g. Seven percent of Colorado's population are children under 5 years old.

How many such children are there, if Colorado's total population is 4,665,000?

2. Solve the problems about parts.

a. If 49% of the population are females, what part of population are males?

b. Which is a larger percentage discount: to get $10 off a $80 item,

or to get $3 off of a $20 item?

c. Mark pays a 23% income tax. How much money

will he have for himself, if his salary is $1,590?

d. A child is 100 cm tall and weighs 15 kg. An adult woman is 160 cm tall and weighs 55 kg.
What percent of the adult height has the child reached?
What percent of the adult weight has the child reached?

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Word Problems with Parts 1

1. a. Complete the chart of distance versus time.

b. When had the car traveled 3/4 of its journey?

c. When had it traveled 5/6 of its journey?
d. What part of the trip was done after traveling 240 km?
e. What part of the trip was left after 5 hours of traveling?
f. What part of the trip was left after 6.5 hours of traveling?

2. An airplane flies at the speed of 750 miles per hour for a distance of 1,250 miles. Fill in the chart.

a. How long will it take to travel 250 miles?

b. How long will the 1,250-mile journey take?
c. What part of the journey is done after 1 hour of traveling?
d. When will it have traveled 1/2 of the journey?
e. When will it have traveled 4/5 of the journey?

3. Water flows to a water tank with the steady rate of 2 liters per second.
a. How long will it take to fill a 2,000 liter tank?
b. When will the tank be 3/4 full?
c. How full is the tank after 10 minutes?

4. Mark pays a 26% income tax of his $1,550 salary. After paying the tax, Mark gives $550 to his wife
for grocery shopping, pays $125 loan payment, $45 electricity bill, and $27 water bill. Of what is left,
he puts 1/5 to savings. How much does he have for himself?

5. The Johnson's family are dividing up grandma's cherry harvest this way: Uncle Mac gets 17%,
Grandma gets 25%, Aunt Annie gets 35%, and Uncle Greg the rest.
Find each person's share when they harvested 455 kg of cherries.

6. Five boys divide a $500 salary so that John gets $50, Jerry gets $120, and the rest of the boys
divide it equally. How much do the rest get each?

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Word Problems with Parts 2

1. Find part of part. Drawing a figure or chart can help to keep things straight!

a. A bouquet of tulips costs 1/2 as much as a bouquet of orchids.

Buying just three roses costs 1/3 of the price of the bouquet of tulips.
If the bouquet of orchids costs $35.40, how much do 3 roses cost?

b. The price of potatoes is 1/5 the price of meat and double the cost of pumpkins. If pumpkins cost
$0.59 per pound, what is the cost of one pound of meat?

c. Jane's plot is 3/4 the size of Jerry's plot, and Ernest's plot is 5/6 the size of Jane's plot. If Jerry's plot
is a rectangle measuring 200 ft x 350 ft, find the land area of Ernest's plot.

d. Mary's garden is 20 ft x 10 ft, and Elisa's garden is 15 ft x 15 ft.

Who has a bigger garden?
What part is Mary's garden of Elisa's garden? Give your answer as a fraction.

2. Find the unknown.

a. b.

3. Joe and Merlin share a $2,000 prize so that Joe gets 3/8 of it. Merlin uses $500 of his part to pay
a debt. How much does Merlin get for himself? (Drawing a picture of this situation may help.)

4. Jorge and Jose rent a vacation house together for one month (30 days). Jose is to use 2/5 of
the rental days and Jorge the rest. Of his part, Jorge lets his neighbor use it for one week.
How many days can Jorge use the house?

5. Half way through the journey, Bill announces: “After 50 miles more, we will have only
1/3 of the journey left.” How long was the journey?

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Scaling
1. Find the scale ratio.

b.
c.
a.

2. Draw a copy of this triangle

using the scale ratio 1:2.5.

3. Fill in the table about similar rectangles.

Shorter side Longer side Perimeter Area
Rectangle 1 1”
Rectangle 2 1 1/2”
Rectangle 3 2”
Rectangle 4 2 1/2” 7 1/2”
Rectangle 5 3”
Distance Distance
4. The sides of a rectangle are 3” and 5 3/4”. A similar rectangle's on map in reality
shorter side is 3/4”. What is that rectangle's longer side?
3 cm
5 cm
17 cm
5. A map has a scale ratio 1:20,000. Fill in the table.
22 cm
6. The scale ratio of two triangles is 1:4. If the sides of the larger triangle are
4.5 cm, 6.2 cm, and 3.8 cm, what are the sides of the smaller triangle?

7. On a house plan, the scale ratio is 1'' to 2'. What are the real
dimensions of a room that on paper measures 8'' by 6'' ?

8. In Jackie's house plan, 12 inches corresponds to 24 feet in reality.

If her bathroom is 5' x 3' in real life, how big would it be on paper?

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Similar Figures
1. If the area of the colored square is 144 cm2,
what are the sides of the big square?

2. The base of the colored right triangle is 3.5 cm, and the base of
the big right triangle is 7 cm. The height of the big triangle is 3 cm.

a. What is the scale ratio between these two similar triangles? 1.

b. Find the area of the gray triangle and the area of the big triangle.

c. Find what part of the area of the big triangle

is the area of the gray triangle.
2.
3. The height of the big triangle is 10, and its base is 8.
a. Find the base, height, and area of the small triangles.
b. What part of the area of the big triangle
is the area of the small white triangle?
3.
4. The big triangle's base is 15 and its height is 6. The gray triangle
is similar to the big triangle with scale ratio 1:3.
Find the area of the small gray triangle.

4.
5. The sides of the shaded square are 3/4 the sides of the big square, and
the sides of the innermost shaded square are 2/3 of the sides of
the bigger shaded square.

If the big square has area 36 sq. in.,

what is the area of the innermost square?

5.
6. The scale ratio between two similar triangles is 2:5.
Find what part of the area of the big triangle is
is the area of the smaller triangle.
(Hint: make up a base and a height.)

7. Squares are drawn inside each other so that each time,

the next square's sides are 3/4 of the sides of the previous
square. Let the largest square be numbered as 1,
the next one number 2, and so on.

a. Draw a sketch.
b. What is the ratio of the area of square 2 to area of square 1?
c. What is the ratio of the area of square 3 to area of square 2?
d. What is the ratio of the area of square 3 to area of square 1?

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Understanding Percent
1. Learn about percents! Fill in the missing parts.
a.
1 square: 6 people 1 square: _____ percent
colored part: _____ people colored part: _____ percent
_____ people in total _____ percent in total

b.
1 square: ______ 1 square: _____ percent
colored part: $_____ colored part: _____ percent
$1100 in total _____ percent in total

c.
1 square: _____ flowers 1 square: _____ percent
colored part: 64 flowers colored part: _____ percent
______ flowers in total _____ percent in total

2. Use the information to fill in the charts. DO not use a calculator.

a. 7 of the school's 35 7 computers broken ____ percent broken

computers were broken. ___ computers in total ____ percent in total

b. Exactly 26 of the batch ____ mice had symptoms ____ % developed symptoms
of 130 mice developed
symptoms. ____ mice in total ____ % in total

c. 36 people out of the ____ people wore jeans ____ % wore jeans
class of 50 wore jeans. ____ people in total ____ % in total

d. 18 out of every 1000 ____ teenagers visit website ____ % visit website
teenagers visits this
website. ____ teenagers in total ____ % in total

3. Rewrite the sentences using the exact amount of things, and not percent.
a. 28% of the 1,450 lunches sold were vegetarian dishes.
b. This cake gets 56% of its 400 calories from fat.

4. Rewrite the sentences using percent, and not the exact amount of things.
a. The 400-gram bag of flour contains 32 grams of fiber.
b. An apple provides you 4 grams of fiber out of the 25 grams dietary recommendation.

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Fractions/Percents
1. Write the fractions as percents.
17 40 8 2
a. b. c. d. 1
100 100 100 100

2. Write the equivalent fractions with hundredth parts, then as percents.

1 1 3
a. = = b. = = c. = =
4 100 5 100 5 100

4 3 17
d. = = e. = = f. = =
25 100 4 100 20 100

3. Write the colored part as a percent.

a. b. c. d.

4. Which of these is the same as 20% of 483?

a. 0.2 × 483 b. 20 × 483 c. 483 ÷ 10, then double that
483
d. 483 ÷ 5 e. 483 ÷ 20 f. × 100
20
483 483 483
g. 20 × h. i. × 20
100 100 × 20 100
20 × 483 100 × 483 483
j. k. l. ×2
100 20 10

1
50% is the same as 2
. To find 50% of a number, divide by _____. 50% of 92 is ____.
1
10% is the same as 10
. To find 10% of a number, divide by _____. 10% of 29.4 is ____.
1
1% is the same as . To find 1% of a number, divide by _____. 1% of 322 is ____

5. Find the percentages. Use mental math.

a. 1% of 280 b. 1% of 76 km c. 1% of $11
10 % of 280 10 % of 76 km 10 % of $11
20 % of 280 30 % of 76 km 50 % of $11
50 % of 280 50 % of 76 km 60 % of $11

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Percents and Decimals

Recall that 1 percent is one-hundredth. Even the name reminds us of that: per cent, or per
hundred. If 14 out of 100 women wear skirts, then 14 per hundred, or 14%, of women wear skirts.

1. Change percents to decimals, or vice versa.

a. 34% = b. 0.09 = c. 4% = d. 101% =
e. 0.58 = f. 1.07 = g. 0.02 = h. 310% =

2. Find mentally. Compare!

a. 10% of 65 b. 10% of 9.80 c. 1% of 207 d. 1% of 22
20% of 65 5% of 9.80 4% of 207 3% of 22

3. Write an expression using decimals and multiplication, and percent and multiplication. Solve.

a. One-tenth of 114 b. three-tenths of 70 kg c. nine-tenths of $155.50

0.1 × 114 = 11.4
10% × 114 =11.4

d. 14 hundredths of 50 lb e. 26 hundredths of 525 people f. 9 hundredths of $56.25

4. Solve the problems.

a. The base price for a shirt is $54, and sales tax b. A jacket cost $25.95 but now has a 15%
is 7%. What is the selling price? discount. What is the discount price?

c. 36% of the 21,500 students use the cafeteria. d. Of his $2,200 salary, Jake pays 27% as
How many do not? taxes. How many dollars are left for him?

5. First change the percents to decimals. Then solve the equations.

x
a. 70% × Z = 455 km b. = 11% c. 105% × Y = $16.50
$25.40

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Finding Percent of Number

1. Use mental math to find 1% and 10% of these numbers, and then find the other percentages
using those.

Number 1% 5% 10% 20% 30% 40% 50% 60% 70% 80% 90% 100%
150
22
7.1
3,500

2. Write the percents as decimals.

a. 50% b. 16% c. 8% d. 120%

3. Find percent of a number.

a. 12% of 48 b. 56% of 180 c. 7% of 393

d. 4% of $12 e. 95% of 6,580 f. 20% of $44.90

g. 38% of 20,000 h. 150% of 36 i. 19% of $525

4. There is a 10% discount on all items. Find the new discounted price. Use mental math.

a. book $12 b. crayons $3 c. book $55

5. There is a 20% discount on all items. Find the new discounted price. Use mental math.

a. shirt $10 b. skirt $15 c. hat $7

6. Sales tax is 6%. Calculate the total amount you will pay for each of these items.

a. jacket $55.90 b. shirt $18.20 c. jeans $23.45

7. In a school, 46% of the 459 students are girls.

a. What percent of the students are boys?
b. How many girls are there?

8. A book sells for $12.95 in store A, and in store B for $14.65.

a. If the book is on 15% discount in store B, will it be cheaper than in store A?
b. What is the price difference now?

9. Dad bought items for $1.68, $12.88, and $7.90. A sales tax of 7% was added.
What was his total bill?

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Mental Math in Percent Problems

1. Find mentally. Find first 10% or 1% of the number to help. Subtraction helps too.

a. 10% of 250 b. 1% of 320 c. 10% of $11 d. 1% of $1,500

30% of 250 7% of 320 60% of $11 6% of $1,500

e. 25% of $48 f. 4% of 90 g. 20% of $4.50 h. 5% of 62

75% of $48 12% of 90 80% of $4.50 95% of 62

2. Round the numbers and estimate the percentages.

a. 7 people out of the 99 visitors bought a gift. b. 63 out of 241 women preferred store A.
→ About _____% of the visitors bought a gift. → About _____% of the women preferred
store A.

Name Tries Baskets Success percent

Jack 26 12
3. Estimate the success percents by rounding some
of the numbers. Dick 31 20
Dave 19 14
Matt 49 35

4. Use your ability to mentally calculate 10% and 1% of number, and your ability to round numbers,
and solve these percent problems mentally. In each problem, an approximate answer is enough.

a. In group 1, 19 out of 120 mice got the disease, and in group 2, 22 out of 106 mice got
the disease. About how many percent of mice got the disease in each group?

b. A $37.90 jacket has a 20% discount. About how much is the discounted price?

c. Jack paid 21.5% of his $1,850 salary as taxes. About how much was left for him?

d. The now $157 house rent will increase by 7%. About how much is the new rent?

e. A $497 laptop has a 15% discount, and a $455 laptop has a 10% discount.
Which is cheaper?

f. If you get $3 off of a $13 item, and $7 off of a $20 item, approximately
how much is the percent of each discount?

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Fractions, Percents, and Decimals

1. Fill in the charts.
Fraction Decimal Percent Fraction Decimal Percent Fraction Decimal Percent
0.5 7/10 4/25
1/3 0.14 0.28
25% 9/100 17/20
1/5 3/5 1.02
0.1 75% 67%

2. Write an expression using decimals and multiplication, and percent and multiplication. Solve.

a. One-tenth of 75 b. one-third of 57 kg c. three-fourths of $49.90

0.1 × 75 = 7.5
10% × 75 = 7.5

d. 37 hundredths of 90 mi e. four-fifths of 1,800 children f. 7 tenths of 540 km

3. Tenth of a percent? Change to decimals.

a. 5.1% b. 27.8% c. 93.28% d. 5.04%

e. 0.1% f. 4.042% g. 83.382% h. 0.012%

4. Change to percents.
a. 0.001 b. 0.009 c. 0.0009 d. 0.548

e. 0.3091 f. 0.39201 g. 0.00032 h. 1.055

5. Change the fractions to decimals and to percents. Give your answer with tenth of a percent.
Use a simple calculator to divide.
8 11 34 9 192
a. b. c. d. e.
23 15 101 283 941

6. Compare without calculations. Think! Converting will help!

17 1 1 19
a. 0.17 b. 7% c. 10% d. 21%
102 7 11 1291
47 3 15 6
e. 82% f. 60% g. 10% h. 71%
39 8 155 8

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Ratios and Percents

1. Write each fraction as a percent. It will help to change each one to an equivalent fraction
with a denominator of 100.
7 44 1 1 3 3
a. b. c. d. e. f.
100 100 4 5 4 20

2. Write the ratios. Then write them as fractions and as percents.

a. white to all c. white to all

b. colored to all d. colored to all

3. Express with a percent.

a. 17 out of 25 women like chocolate. d. Of the 50 participants, 7 came late.

b. 42 out of 200 respondents voted for Mr. X. e. Of the 1,000 boxes, 620 contained books.

c. Jack made 17 shots out of 20 tries. f. Jenny ate 6 cookies of the 25 in the package.

4. Write the ratios in lowest terms, and then as percents. Which one is greater?
a. 3 to 5 b. 48 men out of 100 c. 8:20

13 to 20 12 men out of 25 140:400

5. Explain how you can mentally find a. 10% b. 30% of any number. Give two examples.

6. Find the given percentages of the numbers mentally.

a. 10% of 970 b. 10% of $42 c. 10% of $210 d. 10% of 14 km

20% of 970 30% of $42 60% of $210 5% of 14 km

e. 10% of 60 kg f. 10% of $39 g. 10% of $7.90 h. 10% of $14.50

40% of 60 kg 20% of $39 30% of $7.90 50% of $14.50

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Which Part?
1. Write the part as a fraction in lowest terms.
a. What part is 2 of 3? b. What part is 5 of 30? c. What part is 24 of 100?

d. What part is 5 of 25? e. What part is $6 of $50? f. What part is 90 of 200?

2. Instead of “what part”, now we ask “how many percent”, which means “how many hundredth parts”.
You can write it first as a fraction, possibly write in lowest terms, and possibly convert that to
an equivalent fraction with denominator 100.
a. How many percent is 12 of 20? b. How many percent is $4 of $40?
12 60
= = 60%
20 100
c. How many percent is 20 of 80? d. How many percent is $14 of $100?

e. How many percent is 40 of 50? f. How many percent is $14 of $200?

g. How many percent is 12 of 25? h. How many percent is 36 of 48?

3. The sales tax on a $200 item was $12. How many percent was that?

4. Of 300 people polled, 75 liked to shop in store A. How many percent is that?

5. In a poll of 600 people about

their shopping habits, 75 liked
store A the best, 125 liked store B,
225 liked store C, and 175 liked
store D the best. Organize this
information in a table. Use percents.
(You can use fractions, too).

6. Estimate. In a poll of 989 people, 77% said they supported the decision made.
How many people (approximately) was that?

7. Estimate. Linda has saved $78 for a $239 gadget she is going to buy.
About how many percent of the price has she saved?

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What Part and Percent

Note: In problems 1-3, express the parts asked both as a simplified fraction and as a percent.
1. The boys played basketball. Jack made 12 baskets out of 20 tries. John made seven baskets out
of 10 tries.
What part of Jack's tries went into the basket?
What part of John's tries went into the basket?
So who did better?

2. The table lists how many pupils of each group took a swimming class.
a. Which part of each group's students took swimming? Took
Group Pupils
swimming
7-A 30 18
b. Which of the four groups had the biggest percentage
7-B 28 21
of students who took swimming?
7-C 32 24
7-D 25 20

3. The table lists the number of baskets each basketball player made, and the number of tries.
a. Which part of each of the players tries went into the basket? Player Tries Baskets
Jerry 15 12
b. who did the best percent-wise? Matt 20 15
Adam 8 7
c. who did the worst, percent-wise?
Henry 12 9

4. Find what part. Give your answer as a percent. Use a calculator.

a. What part is $5 of $49.90? b. What part is 26 students of 32 students?

c. How many percent is 14 people d. How many percent is $224 of $1,300?

of 112 people?

5. A store discounted a $15.90 book by $3. How many percent was the discount?

6. Jack harvested 700 kg of apples. He gave 230 kg of them to his cousin and kept the rest.
a. How many percent of the apple harvest did he give to his cousin?
b. How many percent did he keep himself?

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Percent Fact Sheet

Using DECIMALS: Using PERCENT PROPORTION:
Find 23% of 98. / What number is 23% of 98 ?
0.23 × 98 = x 23
=
98 100
16 is what percent of 94?
16 16 x
Find as a decimal, then write as percent. =
94 94 100
How many percent is 283 people out of 792?
283 283 x
Find as a decimal, then write as percent. =
792 792 100
28 is 45% of what number?
28 28 45
0.45x = 28 or = 0.45 =
x x 100
The $455 was only 12% of the total. What is the total?
$455 $455 12
0.12x = $455 or = 0.12 =
x x 100
Percent of change: Compare the difference to the original - using division.
Old price: $47. New price: $38. How many percent did the price decrease?
$47 − $38 as a decimal and write it $9 x
Find =
$47 as a percent. $47 100
Percent of change: Compare the difference to the original - using division.
Before: 45 students. Now: 63 students. How many percent was the increase?
18 18 x
Find as a decimal and write it as a percent. =
45 45 100
Percent of change: Before: $15.60. Increase: 7%. What is the new price?
Since it is an increase, add 7% to 100% to get 107%.
Convert 107% to decimal. Then: x 107
=
1.07 × $15.60 = $15.60 100

Percent of change: At first: 59 kg. Decrease: 12%. What is the new weight?
Since it is a decrease, subtract 12% from 100% to get 88%.
Convert 88% to decimal. Then: x 88
=
0.88 × 59 kg = 59 kg 100

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Using Decimals in Percent Problems

1.Study the examples, and solve the problems.

a. 16 is what percent of 94? b. How many percent is 283 people out of 792?
16
Find as a decimal, then write as percent.
94

c. 28 is 45% of what number? d. The $455 was only 12% of the total.
What is the total?
28
0.45x = 28 or = 0.45
x

e. Original price: $15.60. Increase: 7%. f. Original weight: 59 kg. Decrease: 12%.
What is the new price? What is the new weight?
Since it is an increase, add 7% to 100%
to get 107%.

Convert 107% to decimal. Then:

1.07 × $15.60 =

2. Solve the percent problems.

a. 38% of this number is 119. b. How many percent is 2.9 of 11.5?

What is the number?

c. If 95 is 86% of a certain number, d. 19 is how many percent of 88?

what is the number?

e. What number is 24% of $1250? f. 1.56 is 11% of what number?

3. Calculate the new prices.

a. Old price Change percent New price b. Old price Change percent New price
$12.50 12% increase $122 29% decrease
$97.50 8% decrease $0.59 59% increase

4. At first, the $299 TV was discounted by 10%. Then, the price increased by 10%.
What is the price now?

5. We know that 12% of the population of LittleVille are children under 5.

If there are 1,490 such children, what is the total population of LittleVille?

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Using Percent Proportion

1. Which percent proportion matches which problem? Solve.

34 r
= a. 34% of what number is 95?
95 100

95 34
= b. How many percent is 34 out of 95?
B 100

P 34
= c. What is 34% of 95?
95 100

2. Solve the problems.

a. A $33 gadget is discounted by $4. b. 18.5 is how many percent of 114?

How many percent is that?

c. An item was discounted by $4.50, d. 17.2% of what number is 594?

and that was a 12% discount.
What was the original price?

3. Match and solve.

x 113
= a. What is 85 decreased by 13%?
85 100

13 r
= b. What is 85 increased by 13%?
85 100

y 87
= c. 13 is how many percent of 85?
85 100

4. Solve.

a. A store gave a 27% discount on a $950 TV. What is the new price?

b. Another store increased the price of their $98.50 guitar by 6%. What is the new price?

c. Who did better, Jack or Jill, if Jack got 45 out of 66 questions right, and Jill got 16 out of 25 right?

d. In the year 2005, a club had 48 members. In 2006 there was a 25% increase. In 2007 there
was a 20% increase. How many members did the club have in 2007?

e. In class A, 12 out of the 25 students are girls, and in class B, 14 out of the 30 students are girls.
Which class has a higher percentage of girls?

f. A park has used $4,200 this month, which is 45.65% of its allotted monthly budget.
How many dollars is the monthly budget?

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Practicing with Percent

1. Find the batting averages and arrange the batters in order batting average
from the best to worst by their performance. Name at-bats hits
- as a percent
Jack 250 97
2. The overtime pay is 160% of the normal $11.90 hourly pay.
Calculate Mark's salary for a week during which he worked Dave 312 100
40 normal hours and 20 overtime hours.
Greg 277 87

Tom 289 85

Jerry 302 76
Ben 325 117

3. George paid 21% of his $1,850 salary as taxes. He saved 15%

of what was left. How many dollars were left for his use?

4. A tropical fruit drink provides 74% of your daily 120-mg

need of vitamin C. An apple provides 56% of that. If you eat
both, how many milligrams of vitamin C do you get?
What percent of your daily requirement do you get?

5. An organization helped with the heating bills of about 5 million

households. This figure represents only 13 percent of all the
eligible families. How many families would be eligible for help?

6. In 2005, a family's heating bill was $78 per month during

the four winter months. In 2006, that increased by 45%.
How many dollars more did the family have to pay during
the four winter months of 2006?

7. A 6 ft x 6 ft carpet is placed in the middle of an18 ft x 18 ft floor.

How many percent of the floor area does it cover?

8. You want to cover between 40% and 45% of a 12 ft x 20 ft floor

with a rectangular carpet. What size could your carpet be?
Give three reasonable answers.

9. The population of China - 1,310,000,000 people - is about 20%

of the whole world's population. The population of India is
about 16% of the whole world's population. How many people
live in India?

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Circle Graphs
1. Marsha bought 50 books. Of them, 10 were math books, 12 were science books, 8 were history
books, 4 were fiction, 4 were geography books, 2 were music books, and the rest were art books.
Fill the table. Match each book type with the right sector on the circle graph.

Fraction Percent
Book type Amount
of total of total

2. Sketch a circle graph showing...

a. 50%, 25%, and 25% b. 1/2, 1/3, and 1/6.

3. Mark polled 5th grades about their favorite colors. Below are his results.
Draw a circle graph showing the percentages. You will need a protractor.

Favorite color Percent Degrees

Green 13%
Blue 47%
Red 20%
Orange 5%
Purple 7%
Yellow 8%
(Total 100%) (Total 360º)

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Circle Graphs and Percents

1. Write the percentages into the right circle sectors.

5% 21%

65% 17%

20% 33%

10% 29%
a. b.

2. Find 5%, 10% and 20% using mental math.

Number 40 54 640 128 8.4 12.6 1,200 6,420

5%

10%

20%

3. Discount time is always fun!

a. shirt $15, discount 10% b. jeans $22, discount 10% c. $47 suitcase, discount 20%

Discounted price: $______ Discounted price: $______ Discounted price: $______

d. fan $89, discount 15% e. lamp $18, discount 30% f. $125 keyboard, discount 25%

Discounted price: $______ Discounted price: $______ Discounted price: $______

4. Match the percentages with the right circle sectors. Find how many of each drink was sold.

Fruit drinks sold during one

Percentage Drinks sold
week in Janet's cafe
Apple juice 33%

Orange juice 40%

Mango juice 12%

Pear juice 8%

Guava juice ___%

Total sales 225

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Fractions and Decimals in Measurement

1. Study and work through the examples.

a. How many minutes is 0.17 hours? b. How many hours is 392 minutes?
Simply multiply It is 392/60 hours, or 6 ___/60 hours,
_____hours x ____minutes/hour = or 6 ____/15 hours, or 6.53 hours.

c. How much time is 0.42 years? d. How many 16th parts of inches
is 0.279 inches?
0.42 x 365 days/year gives us 153.3 days.
The 0.3 days we wish to report in hours: Let x be however many 16th parts it is.
0.3 days x ____hrs/day = ____ hours. x
Then, = 0.279
The 0.2 hours we wish to report in minutes. 16
Solving and rounding to nearest whole
____hours x ___min/hour = ____ minutes.
number, we get x = __________.
So 0.42 years is ____ days, ____ hours,
and ____ minutes. So 0.279 inches is ____ /16 inches.

e. A map has a scale ratio of 1:500,000. How long is a distance on the map if in reality it is
250 miles?
Dividing, we get 250 mi ÷ 500,000 = 0.0005 miles. To convert that to inches, find how many
inches are in a mile, and multiply by that number.
It is probably easier to think about this by first converting the 250 miles to inches, and then
dividing by 500,000.
Result:

2. Solve.

a. How many minutes are in 1.293 hours? b. How many hours are in 549 minutes?

c. How many feet are in 0.69 miles? d. How many miles are in 16,392 feet?
e. How many 16th parts of an inch are in
f. How many decimal inches are in 5 15/32 in?
0.19 in.?

g. How much time is 0.23 years

h. How many years is 2,000 days?
(in days, hours, and minutes)?

3. Solve.
a. You divide a 8 1/4-inch long piece of paper into five parts. How wide are the parts?

b. A 22-hour marathon contest was divided into seven parts.

How long were the parts?

c. Venus takes 0.615 of Earth's years to go once around the sun.

How many of Earth's days and hours is that?

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Percent of Change
1. Study the examples and solve.

Percent of change: Compare the difference to the original - using division.

Using DECIMALS: Using PERCENT PROPORTION:

a. Old price: $47. New price: $38. How many percent did the price decrease?

$9 $9 x
Find as a decimal and write it as a percent. =
$47 $47 100

b. Before: 45 students. Now: 63 students. What percent was the increase?

18 18 x
Find as a decimal and write it as a percent. =
45 45 100

2. In one year, the school had 265 children, and the next year the school
had 289 children. What percent was the increase?

3. The funds decreased from $4,500 to $3,800. Item Price Change in percent New Price
How many percent was the decrease?
Jacket $12 + 2%

Jeans $19 - 5%

4. Fill in the table about increasing Shirt $7.60 $8.50

and decreasing prices. Shoes $13.95 $11.50

Tank Top $4.50 $4.95

5. A family's $125 heating bill decreased by 9%, and their $210 rent
increased by 6%. In all, did their expenses from these two bills
increase or decrease? By how many dollars?
By how many percent?

6. The cost of electric went up from 8.5¢ per kilowatt-hour in April

to 9.7¢ in May. Your electric consumption in April was 870 kWh
and in May it was 790 kWh.

a. How much were your electric bills in April and in May?

b. How much was the percent change between these two months
* in the price per kilowatt hour?
* in your electric consumption?
* in your electric bill?

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Percent
1. Fill in the tables.

Old Percent New Base Sales Price with Gross Net

Tax
price change price price tax tax income income
$12.55 + 5% $9 5% $655 22%
+ 11.5% $11.22 $24.50 5.5% $4,600 28.5%
$58.90 − 14% 6% $48.76 33.5% $4,522
− 23.5% $497.25 6.5% $232.17 13% $469.80

2. A rectangle's shorter side is 60% of the longer side, and the perimeter
of the rectangle is 96 inches. Find the sides.

3. If the smaller side of a rectangle was increased by 7 cm, it would be

exactly 55% of the 110-cm longer side. Find the area of the rectangle.

4. John pays 22.5% taxes of his $1,350 salary. How many dollars would
his salary need to increase so that his net income would be $1200?

Faculty Students
5. A 50-member student committee is chosen to represent the whole Science 550
student body of this university. How many members should be chosen
Humanities 896
from each faculty, if the committee members from various faculties
need to be in the same ratio as the numbers of students in different faculties? Art 255
Education 1,150

6. A $59 jacket was discounted by 25%, and then the discount price was
further discounted by 10%. How many percent was the total discount
of the original price?

7. A computer was discounted by 15%, and then the discounted price was
further discounted by 25%. Now the computer cost $765.
What was the original price?

8. If a sales tax increases from 6% to 6.5%, how many dollars would you need
to lower the base price of an item with base price $249 so that the price
the customer pays would be the same?

9. Sally invests $5000. She puts one part in an account with 7% interest, and
the rest in an account with 8.5% interest, for three years. If the total interest
she earns is $1176, how many dollars did she put on the first account?

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Percent of Change
1. Fill the missing parts in the old/new price chart.
Percent
Old price New price
of change
2. a. A number increased by 30% becomes 117.
$100 $87
Find the number.
$87 $100
b. What is 70% less than 55?

c. A number decreased by 22% is 117. What is the number?

d. What number increased by 11.8% equals 185?

3. a. Whose weight loss was b. Find the percent of increase or

the greatest percent-wise? decrease in the number of cattle.
Weight Loss Program Percent
Year Number
of change
Name March 1st April 1st
Mary 190 lb 178 lb 2004 120,200
John 240 lb 206 lb 2005 132,500
Dave 189 lb 179 lb 2006 145,800
Ingrid 167 lb 154 lb 2007 135,900

4. Which of the equations (a), (b) or (c) matches the problem below? Also solve the problem.
An item is first discounted by 25%, and from that price a further 10% discount is given.
Now the price is $15.50. What was the original price?

(100 − 25 − 10)P
a. P − 25%P − 10% P = $15.50 b. $15.50 = c. 0.9(0.75P) = $15.50
100

5. a. A CD is discounted by 10%, and then from the already discounted price, a further 15% discount
is given. If the price now is $12.93, find the original price.

b. What is the total discount percent as compared to the original price?

6. Which would result in a lower price, to first discount an item by 10% and then by a further 15%,
OR to first discount an item by 15% and then by a further 10% ? Justify your reasoning.

7. During three consecutive years, an employer's salary is increased by 15%. If after three
years his salary his $45,400, what was his salary before the rises?

8. First the store raised the price of a pot by 20%. Then they announced a 20% discount on the pot.
Is the customer going to pay more or less for the pot now than before?

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Simple Interest
1.How many dollars is the interest? How much Final sum
money will there be in the account? Or, what Principal Rate Time Interest ($)
on account
was the principal?
$1000 8% 4 years
Fill in the chart. $2200 5.5% 10 years
$950 11% 2 years

10% 1 year $65

14% 1 year $154

9% 4 years $1152

2.Linda deposited $1000 in her savings

account with 8% annual interest.
Brenda did the same with $2500 with Principal Rate 1 year 2 years 3 years 4 years 5 years
5.5% annual interest. How much will
$1000 8%
they have after 1, 2, 3, 4, or 5 years?
Fill in the chart. $2500 5.5%

3. Jack deposited $2,000 in a savings account that earns 8.75% interest annually, and another $2000
in an account with 9.2% annual interest. How many dollars more does the latter account earn
in interest in five years?

4. Dave gets a $900 credit with 5% yearly interest. He pays it back after 1 1/2 years.
How much does he have to pay back?

5. Jill borrowed $200 on 19% yearly interest. How much does she owe after 8 months?

6. Dad borrowed $15,000 with 12% annual interest.

a. After 2 1/2 years, how much does he owe?

b. At that point, Dad pays back $3,500 of the loan (the principal), but none of the interest.
How much is the new principal?
How much does he owe five years after that point?

7. Hannah's savings account earned $117 in interest in two years. The annual interest rate was 9%.
How much did she have before the interest?

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More Percent Problems

1.A government organization keeps track of consumer Item Price Change New price
prices each month, and records the changes.
Tomatoes / 2 lb $3.05 + 2.1%
a. Calculate the new prices, and the dollar totals
for this 'food basket'. Apples / 2 lb $2.32 + 3.2%

b. How much was the total change in dollars? Ground beef 2 lb $5.14 − 3%

c. How many percent was the total change Milk / 1 gal $3.25 − 2.2%
for the basket? Bread / 1 lb $1.09 + 0.7%

Totals for basket

2. a. On the average, the European Union's ratio of doctors to population

is 3.5 : 1000. So how many people is one doctor serving (on the average)?

b. If 0.137% of the total population are doctors, how many doctors

are there in a population of 100,000?

3. Jack spent $55 of his $120 allotted spending money. How many percent
of that money does he have left?

4. Each month Jake gives 1/3 of his $411 salary to his parents
to help buy food. Then he puts away some for savings - and
has $174 left. How many percent of his salary does he save?

5. a. There are 300 pixels in one inch, and the letter size is 24 pixels.
How many letters can you stack vertically into a 5-inch tall space?

b. If the letter size is 24 pixels, and the line spacing is 125% of that,
then how many lines can you write on a paper that is
11 inches tall, if you leave 0.5 in margins on the top and bottom?

*6. In the whole world, there are 1.06 male births for each female birth.
How many male and female babies can you expect there to be in
a random sample of 10,000 babies?

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Proportional Relationships and Slope 1

Use the numbers in the two ratios as two ordered pairs and plot them on the grid. Draw a line through
those points. Identify the SLOPE of your line. Mark the axes with “quantity (unit)”.

1. 8 kg of tomatoes costs $5.

12 kg of tomatoes costs $7.50

Ratio 1: Ratio 2:

Horizontal axis is “Tomatoes (kilograms)”.

Vertical axis is “Cost (_________)”.
Ordered pairs to plot: ( , ) and ( , ).
Slope of the line:
Unit rate:
Equation of the line:
Questions:

a. How much do 7 kg of tomatoes cost?

b. How many kg of tomatoes can you get with $11.50?

2. The train went 450 miles in 5 hours.

The train went 180 miles 2 hours

Ratio 1: Ratio 2:

Horizontal axis is “Time (hours)”.

Vertical axis is “Distance traveled (___________)”.
Ordered pairs to plot: ( , ) and ( , ).
Slope of the line:
Unit rate:
Equation of the line:
Questions:
a. How far can the train go in 11 hours?
b. How long does it take for the train to travel 45 miles?

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Proportional Relationships and Slope 2

Use the numbers in the two ratios as two ordered pairs and plot them on the grid. Draw a line through
those points. Identify the SLOPE of your line. Mark the axes with “quantity (unit)”.

1. Jane types 350 words in 10 minutes.

Jane types 525 words in 15 minutes.

Ratio 1: Ratio 2:

Horizontal axis is “Typing time (___________)”.

Vertical axis is “Typed words (words)”.
Ordered pairs to plot: ( , ) and ( , ).
Slope of the line:
Unit rate:
Equation of the line:
Questions:

a. How many words can Jane type in 12 minutes?

b. How many minutes does it take her to type 1000 words?

2. A 20-kg dog gets 125 mg of medicine.

A 8-kg dog gets 50 mg of medicine.

Ratio 1: Ratio 2:

Horizontal axis is “___________ (kilograms)”.

Vertical axis is “_____________ (milligrams)”.
Ordered pairs to plot: ( , ) and ( , ).
Slope of the line:
Unit rate:
Equation of the line:
Questions:
a. How much medicine should a 15-kg dog get?
b. For what size dog is 35 mg of medicine enough?

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Proportional Relationships and Slope 3

z Identify IF the two ratios given are in proportion, or not. In two problems below, they are not.
z If yes, use the numbers in the two ratios as two ordered pairs (approximately) and plot them on
the coordinate grid. Don't forget to mark the axes and the scaling. Draw a line through those
points.
z Identify the SLOPE of your line and then the equation of your line.

1. 4 gallons of paint covers 1600 square feet.

7 1/2 gallons of paint covers 3500 square feet.
Are the ratios in proportion?

2. Jack worked for 45 hours and got paid $405.

Jack worked for 20 hours and got paid $180.

Are the ratios in proportion?

3. A worker paints 96 square feet in a 1/2-hour.

A worker paints 160 square feet in 50 minutes.

Are the ratios in proportion?

4. To download 15 songs costs $18.

To download 25 songs costs $27.50.

Are the ratios in proportion?

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Proportional Relationship or Not?

1. Which situation matches which graph?

a. The variables are a rectangle's two sides.

They can change as long as the area is
4 square feet.

b. The variables are a rectangle's two sides.

They can change as long as one side is
2 1/2 times as long as the other.

2. In situation a) above, let x be the first side and y be the other side.
What equation can you write about the relationship?

3. In situation b) above, let x be the first side and y be the other side.
What equation can you write about the relationship?

4. A job requires 90 man-hours to complete. In other words, 1 man could do it in 90 hours.

a. How many hours does it take for 10 men to complete it?
b. How many hours does it take for 12 men to complete it?
c. If h is the hours it takes to complete the job, and m is the amount of men,
which equation describes the relationship: h = 90m or hm = 90 ?

5. Jack is paid $11.50 per hour for his work. If h is his working hours and p is his pay,
write an equation about the relationship between h and p.

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