Practice with Percents

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Course: GKT101: General Knowledge for Teachers – Math
Book: Practice with Percents
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Date: Tuesday, May 13, 2025, 11:36 PM

Description

Complete these exercises and check your answers.

Table of contents

Practice Test

In the following exercises, convert each percent to ⓐ a decimal ⓑ a simplified fraction.

  1. \(24\%\)

  2. \(350\%\)


In the following exercises, convert each fraction to a percent. (Round to 3 decimal places if needed.)

  1. \(\frac{1}{3}\)


In the following exercises, solve the percent problem.

  1. 65 is what percent of 260?

  2. 150% of what number is 60?

  3. The total number of vehicles on one freeway dropped from 84,000 to 74,000. Find the percent decrease (round to the nearest tenth of a percent).

Source: Rice University, https://openstax.org/books/prealgebra-2e/pages/6-practice-test
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Answers

  1. \(0.24, \frac{6}{25}\)

  2. \(3.5, \frac{7}{2}\)

  3. \(33.\overline 3 \% \text{ or } 33\frac{1}{3}\%\)

  4. \(25\%\)

  5. \(40\)

  6. \(11.9\%\)