5.2 Percent Converting Between Fractions, Decimals, And Percents Worksheet Page 9
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10Solve each of the following percent applications.
59. A small business pays $13,860 tax for $93,500 in taxable income. Find their tax rate,
expressed as a percent rounded to the nearest hundredth.
60. A small business pays $22,691 tax for $121,640 in taxable income. Find their tax rate,
expressed as a percent rounded to the nearest hundredth.
61. You pay $56.25 sales tax on a purchase of $1250. Find the sales tax rate, expressed
as a percent.
62. You pay $55.90 sales tax on a purchase of $860. Find the sales tax rate, expressed
as a percent.
63. A salesperson earns $1,467 commission on sales of $32,600. If the commission is
based on the sales, find the salesperson’s commission rate expressed as a percent.
64. A salesperson earns $2,250 commission on sales of $125,000. If the commission is
based on the sales, find the salesperson’s commission rate expressed as a percent.
65. A company has 23 full-time employees and 17 part-time employees. What percent of
its employees are full-time employees?
66. A small hot dog stand makes 125 jumbo dogs and 75 chili dogs for a baseball game.
What percent of its hot dogs made are chili dogs?
67. During one week, Frank has cleaning orders for 275 shirts and 125 pants. What
percent of his cleaning orders are pants?
68. During one day, Todd makes 18 business-related phone calls and 22 personal phone
calls. What percent of his phone calls are personal calls?
69. During a playoff game, Michael Jordan made 19 shots out of 32 shot attempts.
Express his shots made as a percent of shot attempts.
70. During a playoff game, Kobe Bryant made 15 shots out of 25 shot attempts. Express
his shots made as a percent of shot attempts.
71. At one point of the season, the Chicago Cubs had won 32 games and lost 38 games.
Express their win to games played ratio as a percent, rounded to the tenths place.
72. At the end of a season, the Atlanta Braves had won 102 games and lost 60 games.
Express their win to games played ratio as a percent, rounded to the tenths place.
73. An experimental asthma drug is tested on 429 people, and 391 show improvement.
What percent of the tested people showed improvement? Round your answer to the
nearest tenth of a percent.
74. An experimental chemotherapy drug is tested on 1200 people, and 965 show decrease
in cancer levels. What percent of the tested people showed decrease in cancer levels?
Round your answer to the nearest tenth of a percent.
75. A large computer manufacturer reduces prices of its computers from $1400 to $1190.
Express the ratio of amount of price decrease to original price as a percent.
76. A cellular phone company reduces prices of its phones from $120 to $103.20. Express
the ratio of amount of price decrease to original price as a percent.
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