Word Problem Exercises: Using Percents
By G Redden
If the answer is a decimal round to the nearest tenth.
What is 28% of 85?
Thirty-two percent of 275 is what number?
Fourteen is what percent of 112?
23 years is what percent of 40 years?
42 is 12% of what number?
35 is 21.5% of what number?
27 hours is what percent of 2 days
38 inches is what percent of 5 feet
You spend $36.10 on dinner and plan to leave a 23% tip.
a) How much do you leave for a tip?
b) All together how much is dinner including tax?
You spend 9 tip.
a) What is the percent of the tip?
b) What is the total cost of dinner including the tip?