ASSIGNMENT
Use a proportion to answer the question.
1. What percent of 56 is 14?
2. What number is 55% of 80? 13. 11 is 22% of what number?
3. What percent of 125 is 98?
4. What number is 30% of 130? 14. 48 is 75% of what number?
5. Basketball Of the 325 teams in NCAA Division 1 Women’s Basketball, 4% are in the Mid-American Conference. How many teams are in the Mid-American Conference?
6. Cats An adult cat has a body mass of 3500 grams. It can eat up to 8% of its body mass in food each day. How many grams of food can the cat eat each day? Use estimation to justify that your answer is reasonable.
7. Paintings An artist’s collection of paintings includes 22 portraits. The portraits make up 40% of the collection. How many paintings are in the collection?
Tanana River When a certain section of the ice breaks on the Tanana River in Nenana, Alaska, the townspeople consider spring to have started. During the period 1917-2001, the ice broke 34 times on or between May 4 and May 10. What percent of those 85 years were years in which the ice broke on or between May 4 and May 10?
Talent Show You are performing in a talent show. To decide who performs first, the names of all 15 participants are written on slips of paper and put in a hat. One name is drawn from the hat. What is the probability that you go first? Write your answer as a percent. Solar Cars The 2001 American Solar Challenge was a race among solar-powered cars traveling from Chicago, Illinois, to Claremont, California. a. Three of the cars in the race weighed less than 600 pounds. These cars made up 10% of all the cars. How many cars were in the race?
b. There were 16 three-wheeled cars in the race. What percent of the cars were three-wheeled?
C. The course was 2247.39 miles long, and it was completed by 40% of the cars. How many cars completed the course? Maioo. Write a real-world percent problem that can be solved by using the proportion ax = 140%. Then find the value of x and solve the problem.
