On a 120-question test, a student got 84 correct How much HCI (hydrochloric acid) is in a 60-

answers. What percent of the problems did the milliliter bottle that is marked 75% HCI?
student work correctly?

How much acetic acid is in a 5-liter container that is

An engineering student answered 81 questions marked 80% acetic acid? How much is water?
correctly on a 90-question test. What percent of the
questions did she answer correctly?
What percent were incorrect?

A basketball player made 63 out of 75 free throws. A farmer owns 28 acres of land. Of the 28 acres,
What percent is this? only 65% can be farmed. How many acres are
available for farming?

Of the 420 students enrolled in basic math, only 30%

A family spends $450 every month on food. If the are first-year students. How many are first-year
family’s income is $1,800 each month, what students? How many are not?
percent of the income is spent on food?
If 48% of the students in a certain college are 75% of the students in chemistry have had
female and there are 1,440 female students, what mathematic. If there are 300 students in chemistry,
is the total number of students in the college? how many of them have had mathematic?

Suppose 60% of the graduating class in a certain A survey of 250 people showed that 220 people
high school goes to college. If 240 students from favored a candidate for election. What percent of
this graduating class are going to college, how the people surveyed favored the candidate?
many students are in the class?

In a shipment of airplane parts, 3% are known to be A salesperson at a dress shop sold $1,200
defective. If 15 parts are food to be defective, how worth of clothes and earned a commission of
many parts are in the shipment? $210. What is his commission percent?

There are 3,200 students are our school. If 52% of There were 13,426 eligible voters for a certain
them are men, how many men are enrolled in our election. On election day 8,206 people cast their
school? vote. What was the percent of voter turn-out?
A merchant sold 3,500 hats in one month. If she A family with a monthly income of $2200 spends
purchased 4000 hats, what percent of the hats $850 for rent $225 for utilities and $325 for food.
purchased were sold? What percent of the family income is spent for each?

A house painter has an annual income of A spring coat that cost the retailer $60.00 was
$35,000 and paid $2,500 in income tax. What marked up 20% of the cost. What was the price
percent of her income is the income tax? increase?

An investor received a dividend of $550 on an The list price of a car at Ira's is $12, 600.00. Since
investment of $4000. What percent of the Liza works there, she receives a 12% discount on
investment is the dividend? the list price. How much is the discount?

Bernie was earning $12.60 an hour. He received Mr. Winkleman, a professional wine taster, made
a raise of $1.07. What percent was his raise? $32,800 last year. This year he had a raise of
$2,132. What was the percent of the raise?
A television that usually sells for $499 is on sale for You correctly answered 15 out of 20 problems on
10% off. What is the discount of the television? your test. What is your percent score?

Martha finished 20 teddy bears of the 21 she was

This summer the number of tourists in Salem expecting to complete on Tuesday. What percent
increased 4.5% from last year's total of of her work did she complete? (Round to the
426,000. How many more tourists came to Salem nearest whole percent)
this summer?

At the Liberty Tree Mall 1,300 people took the A student earned a grade of 80% on a math test
Coke/Pepsi challenge. 55% of those challenged that had 20 problems. How many problems on this
preferred Coke. How many people selected Coke? test did the student answer correctly? (round to the
nearest whole number)

Mercy marks up all goods she sells by 30%. What There are 36 carpenters in a crew. On a certain day,
is the mark up of a hat that cost her $42? 29 were present. What percent showed up for work?
(round to the nearest tenth)
A metal bar weighs 8.15 ounces. 93%of the bar is Pamela bought an electric drill at 85% of the
silver. How many ounces of silver are in the bar? regular price. She paid $32.89 for the drill. What
(round to the nearest thousandth) was the regular price? (Round to the nearest cent)

A woman put $580 into a savings account for one A crew is made up of 8 men; the rest are women.
year. The rate of interest on the account was 6½%. 6632% of the crew are men. How many people are
How much was the interest for the year in dollars in the crew?
and cents? (Round to the nearest cent)

Ben earns $12,800 a year. About 15% is taken out

A student answered 86 problems on a test correctly for taxes. How much is taken out for taxes?
and received a grade 98%. How many problems
were on the test ,if all the problems were worth the
same number of points? (Round to the nearest
whole number)

At a sale, shirts were sold for $15 each. This price

Manuel bought the car for 65% of the original price was 80% of their original price. What was the
of $7200. What did he pay for the car? (Round to original price?
nearest dollar)