Percent Word Problems TeacherTwins©2014

Warm Up 1). Twenty percent of thirty five is what number? 2). What percent of 70 is 14? 3). What is 400% of 60? 4). 8 is 50% of what number? 5). What percent of 75 is 30? 6). 25 is 60% of what number? 7 20% 240 16 40% 41.7

𝟓 𝟖 = 𝒙 𝟏𝟎𝟎 X= 62.5% 𝒑𝒂𝒓𝒕(𝒊𝒔) 𝒘𝒉𝒐𝒍𝒆(𝒐𝒇) = % 𝟏𝟎𝟎 Solve the word problems. Example 1: Jon made 5 out of 8 shots during his basketball game. What percent of his shots did he make? 𝟓 𝟖 = 𝒙 𝟏𝟎𝟎 𝒑𝒂𝒓𝒕(𝒊𝒔) 𝒘𝒉𝒐𝒍𝒆(𝒐𝒇) = % 𝟏𝟎𝟎 X= 62.5%

X=18 𝒙 𝟐𝟎 = 𝟗𝟎 𝟏𝟎𝟎 𝒑𝒂𝒓𝒕(𝒊𝒔) 𝒘𝒉𝒐𝒍𝒆(𝒐𝒇) = % 𝟏𝟎𝟎 Example 2: Kim got 90% of her questions correct on a 20 question test. How many questions did she get correct? 𝒙 𝟐𝟎 = 𝟗𝟎 𝟏𝟎𝟎 𝒑𝒂𝒓𝒕(𝒊𝒔) 𝒘𝒉𝒐𝒍𝒆(𝒐𝒇) = % 𝟏𝟎𝟎 X=18

Example 3: Ray ate 5 cookies out of a package Example 3: Ray ate 5 cookies out of a package. If he ate 25% of the cookies how many were in the package? 𝒑𝒂𝒓𝒕(𝒊𝒔) 𝒘𝒉𝒐𝒍𝒆(𝒐𝒇) = % 𝟏𝟎𝟎 𝟓 𝒙 = 𝟐𝟓 𝟏𝟎𝟎 X=20

1). Liam scored 2 goals out of 5 tries. What percent did he score? Practice 1). Liam scored 2 goals out of 5 tries. What percent did he score? 2). Ike ate 25% of a box of crackers. If he ate 20 crackers, how many were in the box? 3). On a math test Sam got 20 out of 30 problems correct. What percent of the problems were correct? 4). About 20% of Kim’s Halloween candy is chocolate. If she has 3 pounds of candy. How much is chocolate? 40% 80 66.7% 0.6lbs or 𝟑 𝟓 lbs

Closure How are the following problems different? Alike? Kim got 30% of her questions correct. She got 3 out of how many correct? Kim got 30% of her questions correct. There were 10 questions. How many did she get correct?