Name: ____________________ Hour: ______ Date: _____________________
Answer all questions completely. Show your work. You may write your answers
on a separate piece of paper.
- 5% of $34.00 is
- 20% of $20.00 is
- 30% of $29.99 is
- Juan decides to go out to diner at the local restaurant. He buys
the Steak dinner on a special for $19.99. The tax where Juan lives
is 9% and it is customary to leave approximately a 15% tip.
- How much does Juan have to pay for tax?
- Approximately how much should Juan leave for a tip?
- How much will Juan have to pay total for his meal, tax and tip?
- Caitlin decides to go shopping at the local mall. She finds a sweater
that she just has to have for $40 with a 20% discount. How much is
the sweater with the discount?
- If the pie chart represents the percent
of students that received each of the letter
grades in Mr. Howitsons class what
percentage of students received a
C, a B or an A?
- What percent of baskets did your group make?
- If a store offers a 40% discount on an item that was marked down by
25% already is that the same as the store offering that same item for
the discount of 65%? Explain.
- If there are 400 students in a school and there are 250 boys and 150
girls. If there was a election held and 15% of the boys voted for Sue
and 20% of the girls voted for Sue, did Sue when the election if there
were only two candidates? Why?
- Name four ways in which we see percents daily?
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