HSPT Math : Percentages

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Example Questions

Example Question #1 : How To Find The Whole From The Part With Percentage

420 is 150% of what number?

Possible Answers:

Correct answer:

Explanation:

Set up the proportion statement and solve for  by cross-multiplying:

Example Question #1 : How To Find The Whole From The Part With Percentage

70 is  of what number?

Possible Answers:

Correct answer:

Explanation:

Set up the proportion statement and solve for  by cross-multiplying:

Example Question #2 : How To Find The Whole From The Part With Percentage

24 is 25% of what number?

Possible Answers:

Correct answer:

Explanation:

Think is of .

 

So:

 

and .

 

We have:

 

 

Example Question #31 : Percentages

Write 132% as a fraction in simplest form.

Possible Answers:

Correct answer:

Explanation:

Write as a fraction over 100, and simplify:

Example Question #32 : Percentages

Write  as a percent.

Possible Answers:

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Correct answer:

 %

Explanation:

Multiply by 100, and simplify:

The correct choice is 96%.

Example Question #6 : How To Find Percentage

What percentage of  is ?

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Correct answer:

Explanation:

To find the percentage, first write the values as a fraction, then convert the fraction's denominator to . We can write the given values as , which can be converted to  by multiplying both the numerator and denominator by  is equivalent to .

Example Question #1 : Percentage

What is 250% of 750?

Possible Answers:

Correct answer:

Explanation:

Taking 250% of a number is the same as multiplying that number by 2.5. We therefore take the product:

Example Question #2 : Percentage

What is 30% of 150?

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Correct answer:

Explanation:

One way to go about solving this problem is to convert the percent into a decimal and multiply your whole number by that in order to get your answer. When converting a percent into a decimal, move the decimal point two spaces to the left:

30% = 0.30

Then, multiply this number times 150:

Your answer is .

Example Question #1151 : Hspt Mathematics

If  is  of , what is  of ?

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Correct answer:

Explanation:

We can solve for  with the algebraic equation:

We can then calculate  of :

Example Question #3 : Percentage

What is  of ?

Possible Answers:

Correct answer:

Explanation:

We can convert  to  or . We can then calculate .

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