Name: ____________________ Hour: ______  Date: _____________________

Answer all questions completely. Show your work. You may write your answers on a separate piece of paper.

  1. 5% of $34.00 is
  1. 20% of $20.00 is
  1. 30% of $29.99 is
  1. 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. 
    1. How much does Juan have to pay for tax?
    1. Approximately how much should Juan leave for a tip?
    1. How much will Juan have to pay total for his meal, tax and tip?
  1. 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?
 

  1. 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?

  1. What percent of baskets did your group make?
  1. 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.
  1. 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?
  1. Name four ways in which we see percents daily?