Word problems with percentages

Difficulty Starter · Set 79fudu

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1
15% of the 180 tickets for a concert have been sold. How many are left?
2
25% of the 180 tickets for a concert have been sold. How many are left?
3
15% of the 180 tickets for a concert have been sold. How many are left?
4
50% of the 80 tickets for a concert have been sold. How many are left?
5
25% of the 100 tickets for a concert have been sold. How many are left?
6
50% of the 200 tickets for a concert have been sold. How many are left?
7
25% of the 80 tickets for a concert have been sold. How many are left?
8
40% of the 60 tickets for a concert have been sold. How many are left?
9
80% of the 160 tickets for a concert have been sold. How many are left?
10
25% of the 80 tickets for a concert have been sold. How many are left?
11
20% of the 100 tickets for a concert have been sold. How many are left?
12
50% of the 140 tickets for a concert have been sold. How many are left?
13
25% of the 60 tickets for a concert have been sold. How many are left?
14
40% of the 180 tickets for a concert have been sold. How many are left?
15
60% of the 80 tickets for a concert have been sold. How many are left?
16
80% of the 60 tickets for a concert have been sold. How many are left?
17
20% of the 60 tickets for a concert have been sold. How many are left?
18
60% of the 120 tickets for a concert have been sold. How many are left?
19
50% of the 80 tickets for a concert have been sold. How many are left?
20
25% of the 80 tickets for a concert have been sold. How many are left?

What is in this set

The numbers in this set run from 5 to 200.
A careful solution takes 3 written steps on average.
The mistake this set invites most often, in 91% of the problems: that is how many have been SOLD; the question asks how many are left.
Answers are a whole number.

Drawing 240 problems from this page produced 91 different ones, 38% — so a sheet of 20 will come back to a problem you have seen — there are only so many sensible ones of this kind.

The same skill, harder or easier

We would put this in front of a grade 6 class. That is our judgement, not a standard, and it is printed here so you can disagree with it. Everything else we put in that year.