Percentage Problem Solving Questions

We begin by subtracting the smaller number (the old value) from the greater number (the new value) to find the amount of change.

Example 47% of the students in a class of 34 students has glasses or contacts.

How many students in the class have either glasses or contacts?

Look at the pairs of multiplication and division facts below, and look for a pattern in each row.

Percent problems can also be solved by writing a proportion.

Aaron had $ 2100 left after spending 30 % of the money he took for shopping. Fraction into Percentage Percentage into Fraction Percentage into Ratio Ratio into Percentage Percentage into Decimal Decimal into Percentage Percentage of the given Quantity How much Percentage One Quantity is of Another?

To solve problems with percent we use the percent proportion shown in "Proportions and percent".

The percent of change tells us how much something has changed in comparison to the original number.

There are two different methods that we can use to find the percent of change.

Now we will apply the concept of percentage to solve various real-life examples on percentage.1.

In an election, candidate A got 75% of the total valid votes.