Solving problems with percentages
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Other questions of this type
Question 1
In a class there are 9 girls and 16 boys. What percentage of the class are:
a
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b
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Question 2
In a large bowl there are 100 soft centred chocolates and 25 hard centred chocolates. What percentage of the chocolates are:
a
%
b
%
Question 3
A group of friends go to a local football match. The match is between the Wombat Rovers and the Revemup Strikers. Fifteen of the friends barrack for the Wombat Rovers and 25 barrack for the Revemup Strikers. What percentage of the friends barrack for the Wombat Rovers?
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Question 4
Students in a city school carried out a survey of the students of the school in their investigation of whether or not they ate breakfast. The survey presented the question 'Do you eat breakfast on a regular basis?' and the students recorded the results along with the gender of each respondent.
| Male | Female | Total | |
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| Eat breakfast regularly | 30 | 50 | 80 |
| Do not eat breakfast regularly | 40 | 30 | 70 |
| Total | 70 | 80 | 150 |
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- What percentage of students are male and eat breakfast regularly?
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- b
- What percentage (correct to one decimal place) of the students are female and eat breakfast regularly?
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