Math Drills
Finding the Percentage
A-1Word Problems (Decimals, Basic)
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What this worksheet covers
- Topic
- Percentage
- Worksheet
- Finding the Percentage
The percentage itself is found, in word problems set in scenes such as passengers against capacity, this year's amount against last year's, and the discount off a regular price. There are questions writing the answer as a decimal, questions writing it as a percent, and questions answering how many times as large with a unit of multiplication, and the discount rate takes two steps, finding the difference and then turning it into a percentage.
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A question whose answer box carries % needs one more step, multiplying the decimal from the division by a hundred. A figure below 1 such as 0.35 standing in the % box means that step is missing. Questions with a unit of multiplication and questions with no unit need no multiplying by a hundred, so checking the shape of the answer box first is the quickest road.
Unlike the previous lesson, which only restated, from here a percentage is made out of the figures in a scene. In Finding the Compared Quantity the percentage is given first and the direction turns to finding the amount it stands for.
- Decimals (Basics)3 questions
- Decimals (How Many Times as Many)3 questions
Questions & answers
Problems and answers on this worksheet
These are the problems in “Percentage”, shown with their answers.
(1)There are 30 candies. Of them, 18 are strawberry flavored. What ratio of the total number of candies is the number of strawberry candies? Answer □
Answer: 0.6
(2)There was 25cm of ribbon. Of it, you used 19cm. What ratio of the original length of the ribbon is the length of ribbon you used? Answer □
Answer: 0.76
(3)There are 20 pencils. Of them, 11 have broken tips. What ratio of the total number of pencils is the number that are broken? Answer □
Answer: 0.55
(4)The length of the black rope is 5.4m, and the length of the white rope is 1.8m. The length of the black rope is how many times the length of the white rope? Answer □
Answer: 3times
(5)There is 4.9kg of flour and 3.5kg of rice flour. The weight of the flour is how many times the weight of the rice flour? Answer □
Answer: 1.4times
(6)There is 5.4kg of sugar, and 1.2kg of salt. The weight of the sugar is how many times the weight of the salt? Answer □
Answer: 4.5times
What to do next
More worksheets in this unit
Finding the PercentageFinding the Percentage Word Problems (%, Application)
Finding the Compared QuantityFinding the Compared Quantity Word Problems (Basic)
Finding the Compared QuantityFinding the Compared Quantity Word Problems (Increase/Decrease, 2 Steps)
Finding the Base QuantityFinding the Base Quantity Word Problems (Decimals, %)
