Math Drills
Finding the Percentage
A-3Word 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)A town has a population of 800 people. Of them, the child population is 240 people. What ratio of the whole town's population is the child population? Answer □
Answer: 0.3
(2)There is a 8m long rope. From it, 6m was cut off and used. What ratio of the original length of the rope is the length cut off? Answer □
Answer: 0.75
(3)The time you studied is 60 minutes. Of it, the time spent on homework was 42 minutes. What ratio of the whole study time is the homework time? Answer □
Answer: 0.7
(4)There is 2.1kg of flour and 1.4kg of soybean flour. The weight of the flour is how many times the weight of the soybean flour? Answer □
Answer: 1.5times
(5)There is 4.2L of soy sauce, and 2.4L of vinegar. The amount of soy sauce is how many times the amount of vinegar? Answer □
Answer: 1.75times
(6)The length of the red tape is 1.2m, and the length of the blue tape is 0.4m. The length of the red tape is how many times the length of the blue tape? Answer □
Answer: 3times
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, %)
