Percentage Practice Problems
Master percentages with practical problems you'll use in real life. From basic percent calculations to discounts, tips, and percent change, these exercises build essential skills.
Skills You'll Practice
- Converting between percentages, decimals, and fractions
- Finding a percentage of a number
- Finding what percent one number is of another
- Calculating percentage increase and decrease
- Solving discount and markup problems
- Working with tips and taxes
Basic Percentage Conversions
EasyConvert 75% to a decimal
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Divide by 100 (move decimal 2 places left)
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0.75
Convert 0.4 to a percentage
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Multiply by 100
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40%
Convert 3/5 to a percentage
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3 ÷ 5 = 0.6, then × 100
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60%
Finding Percentages
MediumWhat is 25% of 80?
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0.25 × 80 or 80 ÷ 4
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20
15 is what percent of 60?
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(15 ÷ 60) × 100
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25%
A shirt costs $40. With 15% off, what is the sale price?
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Find 15% of 40, then subtract from 40
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$34
Percent Change & Applications
HardA stock rose from $50 to $65. What is the percent increase?
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(65-50)/50 × 100
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30%
After a 20% decrease, a price is $64. What was the original price?
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Original × 0.80 = 64
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$80
A meal costs $45. With 8% tax and 20% tip (on pre-tax), what is the total?
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Tax = $3.60, Tip = $9.00, Total = 45 + 3.60 + 9
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$57.60
Pro Tips
- 💡To find X% of a number, multiply by X/100 (or move decimal 2 places left)
- 💡Percent change = (New - Original) / Original × 100
- 💡For discounts: Sale Price = Original × (1 - discount rate)
- 💡"Of" usually means multiply in percentage problems
Curriculum Alignment
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