MATH 110 CP 11 SHORT ANSWER. Write the word or phrase that best completes each statement or answers the question. Write the percent as a decimal. 1) 60% 1) Write the percent as a fraction or mixed number in simplest form. 2) 14 3 4 % 2) 3) Write the equivalent decimal and fraction for 16 2 %. 3) 3 Write the decimal as a percent. 4) 0.037 4) Write the fraction or mixed number as a percent. 5) 56 25 5) 6) 1 3 10 6) 7) Approximately 21.1% of all students at a city college commute to school. Write this percent as a fraction or mixed number in simplest form. 7) Translate the question into an equation. Do not solve. 8) What number is 85% of 22? 8) 9) 88.8 is 11% of what number? 9) 10) What percent of 48 is 51? 10) 11) 7.6 is what percent of 76? 11) Translate to an equation and solve. 12) What number is 34% of 44? 12) 13) 117 is what percent of 90? 13) 14) 0.4 is 5% of what number? 14) 15) What percent of 75,531 is 29,457.09? 15) 1
Translate the question into a proportion. Do not solve. 16) What number is 75% of 80? 16) 17) 473 is 85% of what number? 17) Translate to an equation and solve. 18) 0.8% of what number is 14.4? 18) 19) 184.8 is what percent of 56? 19) Translate to a proportion and solve. Round to the nearest hundredth, if necessary. 20) 3705 is what percent of 1500? 20) Round to the nearest tenth, if necessary. 21) 8157 is 129% of what number? 21) 22) What number is 22.6% of 52,368? 22) Translate to a proportion and solve. Round to the nearest hundredth, if necessary. 23) 0.1 is 5% of what number? 23) Round to the nearest tenth, if necessary. 24) What percent of 113,738 is 79,541? 24) If necessary, round percents to the nearest tenth, dollar amounts to the nearest cent, and all other numbers to the nearest whole. 25) Ben is taking Kim out to dinner. He has $57.60 to spend. He wants to tip the server 20% of 25) the cost of the meal. How much can he spend on the meal? 26) Richard has $34.65 deducted from his monthly salary of $1650 for a vacation savings plan. What percent of Richard's salary is withheld for the vacation savings plan? What percent of Richard's salary is not withheld for vacation savings plan? 26) 27) The Applegate family paid 15% of the purchase price of a $282,000 home as a down payment. Determine the amount of the down payment. 27) 28) A union contract calls for a 7.7% salary increase for all employees. Determine the increase that a worker currently making $47,220 under this contract can expect. 28) 29) A union contract calls for a 3.5% salary increase for all employees. Determine the increase for a worker who is currently making $55,250. 29) 30) Due to a lack of funding, the number of students enrolled at City College went from 6000 last year to 2000 this year. Find the percent decrease in enrollment. 30) 31) A company increased the number of its employees from 220 to 270. What was the percent increase in employees? 31) 2
32) Last year the profit for a company was $442,000. This year's profit decreased by 3.8%. Find this year's profit. 32) 33) A phone costs $100 and a battery recharger costs $42. What is the total price for purchasing these items if the sales tax rate is 5%? 33) 34) A refrigerator sells for $836. If the sales tax rate is 6.9%, what is the total price? 34) 35) A calculator has a purchase price of $26. If the sales tax on this purchase is $1.30, find the sales tax rate. 35) 36) A house recently sold for $547,390. The commission rate on the sale is 6.5%. If a real estate agent is to receive 60% of the commission, find the amount received by the agent. 36) 37) A salesperson earned $1350 for selling chemicals to industry. If her commission rate is 5%, find the selling price of the chemicals. 37) 38) A $260 coat is on sale at 40% off. Find the discount. 38) 39) Find the sale price when the original price is $20,900.00 and the discount rate is 3%. 39) 40) Find the sale price when the original price is $58.00 and the discount rate is 35%. 40) 41) A $3400 table is on sale at 25% off. Find the sale price. 41) 42) A $330.00 dress is on sale for 20% off. Find the discount and the sale price. 42) 43) A house recently sold for $449,320. The commission rate on the sale is 5%. If a real estate agent is to receive 60% of the commission, find the amount received by the agent. 43) 44) Latasha and Sharon ordered out for pizza. The bill was for $19.82. How much did they give the delivery person to pay for the pizza along with a 10% tip, rounded to the nearest dollar? 44) 45) Sam and Sally went out to dinner. The dinner bill was $65.49 plus a 20% tip. If they split the total cost, how much did Sam pay, rounded to the nearest cent? 45) 46) A diamond necklace normally sells for $34,416. If it is first discounted by 20% and then taxed at 6%, find the total price. 46) 3
Answer Key Testname: MATH110CP11 1) 0.6 59 2) 400 3) 0.16; 1 6 4) 3.7% 5) 224% 6) 130% 7) 211 1000 8) x = 85% 22 9) 88.8 = 11% x 10) x 48 = 51 11) 7.6 = x 76 12) 14.96 13) 130% 14) 8 15) 39% a 16) 80 = 75 100 17) 473 b = 85 100 18) 1800 19) 330% 20) 247% 21) 6323.3 22) 11,835.2 23) 2 24) 69.9% 25) $48.00 26) 2.1%; 97.9% 27) $42,300 28) $3635.94 29) $1933.75 30) 66.7% 31) 22.7% 32) $425,204.00 33) $149.10 34) $893.68 35) 5% 36) $21,348.21 37) $27,000 38) $104.00 39) $20,273.00 40) $37.70 41) $2550.00 42) Discount: $66.00; sale price: $264.00 43) $13,479.60 44) $22 4
Answer Key Testname: MATH110CP11 45) $39.29 46) $29,184.77 5