1. Percent Word Problems
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2. 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

3. 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%

4. 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

5. 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

6. 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

7. 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?