Test for Ch 6 Percents

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Chapter 6 Percents - Test

Calculators are allowed

4

Write your name

Reportable standard: Use properties of operations to generate equivalent expressions.

Targeted skill: Percent and decimals

1

Write the percent as a decimal
33%

1

Write the percent as a decimal
66.4%

1

Write the percent as a decimal
0.1%

1

Write the percent as a decimal
123%

1

Which one is greater 63% or 0.8

Targeted skill: comparing percent, decimals and fractions

3

Change the following into the same type and put in order of size, least to greatest
68%, 0.63, \frac{13}{20}

write your answers separated by a comma and space.
e.g. 0.1, 0.2, 0.3

3

On Thursday afternoon, between 4.00 and 5.00 you spend \frac{1}{4} of the hour reading emails, 0.4 of the hour doing homework, and 35% of the hour doing chores.
Write the tasks in order from the least amount of time to the greatest.

write your answers separated by a comma and space.
e.g. swimming, football, baseball

2

Which is less, the number of students with a pet in their home or the number who play on a sports team?

2


\frac{11}{50} of the students live within a mile of the school. Is this greater than or less than the portion of students who walk to school?

Reportable standard: Use proportional relationships to solve multistep ratio and percent problems.

Targeted skill: Using percent proportion or equation to find Part, a whole or a percent

3

Write and solve a percent proportion or percent equation to answer the question.

what number is 45% of 60?

4

Write and solve a percent proportion or percent equation to answer the question.

35% of what number is 21?

4

Write and solve a percent proportion or percent equation to answer the question.

61 is what percent of 80?

4

The table shows the percentage of total athletes at a school that play certain sports. Each athlete only plays one sport. Twenty athletes play baseball.


How many athletes are there at the school?

Targeted skill: Percent increase or decrease

4

Identify the percent of change as an increase or decrease.
Then find the percent of change. Round to the nearest tenth of a percent, if necessary.

15 books to 21 books

write your answer using this format.
e.g increase, 16%

4

Identify the percent of change as an increase or decrease. Then find the percent of change. Round to the nearest tenth of a percent, if necessary.

60 cars to 24 cars

write your answer using this format.
e.g increase, 16%

4

Use the percent of change to find the new amount.

820 brushes decreased by 25%

4

Use the percent of change to find the new amount.

$84 increased by 12%

4

The price of your favorite brand of jeans was $35 last month. This month the price is $42. What is the percent of change from last month to this month?

Targeted skill: Discounts and markups

Remember: you are dealing with money!
3

Find the sale price

original price: $82
Discount: 10%
Sale price: ?

4

Find the original price

original price: ?
Discount: 36%
Sale price: $32

4

Find the selling price

cost to store:$45
Markup: 35%
Selling price: ?

4

A store buys a toy for £60 but then sells it to the customer for £105, what percent is the markup?