Sheet # 177/Percentage
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1) Mr. Atkins conducted a survey to find out what his students preferred as rewards. He had 30 students in his class. 40% of his students wanted free time, 10% of his students wanted pop corn, 20% wanted ice cream and 30 % wanted videos. How many students wanted each reward?
2) The book that Fabian is reading has 188 pages in it. He has read 75% of the book. How many pages does he need to read to finish the book?
3). Lisa had a bag of 200 jellybeans. 30 were red, 70 were pink, 20 were white, 10 were green, 50 were blue and 20 were orange. What percent of her jellybeans were red?____ pink? ____ white? ___ green ?___ blue? ____ orange? _____
4) . Mrs. Grey's honor's class has signed up to sell 60 boxes of candy. They were only able to sell 45 boxes. What percent of candy was sold?
5) Sarah spends 6 hours a day in school, 2 hours doing homework, 10 hours sleeping, 2 hours practicing piano and 4 hours playing and doing chores. What percent of time does she spend doing each activity?
Answers for Sheet # 177
1)
Freetime12 students
Popcorn= 3 students
Ice cream = 6 students
Videos = 9 students
2) 47 pages
3) Red= 15%, Green = 5%, Pink = 35%, Blue = 25%, White = 10% and Orange = 10%
4) 75%
5) school = 25%, homework = 8.3%, sleeping - 41.7%, piano = 8.3% and playing = 16.6%