At Lake Worth Middle School, 4% of the students ride their bikes to school. If 750 students attend Lake Worth
Middle School, about how many students ride a bike to school?
750

4 %
Change 4% to the decimal .04
2
750

.
04
30
.
0 0

Mrs. Blogg has 30 students in her classroom. She noticed that of the students have blond hair and ½ of the students have brown hair. The rest of the students have red hair. What percent of the students in Mrs. Blogg’s class have red hair?
Percent means out of 100… blond hair
3
:
10

10
10

30
100 blond hair : 3 0% brown hair
1
:
2

50
50

50
100 brown hair : 5 0% red hair : 100%

30%

5 0%

20%

All Star Sports received a shipment of new athletic shoes.
15% of the shoes were baseball cleats. What fraction of the shoes were baseball cleats?
Percent means out of 100…
15
100

5
5

3
20
Simplify…

Congress Middle School held an election for the student body president. When the election was over, the principal announced some facts about the election as shown below:
• A total of 600 votes were cast for president
• 10% of the votes for president were for
Tameka
•
5
8 of the votes for president were for Hunter.
The remaining votes were for Dakota. What was the total number of votes for Dakota?
600

10 %

60 votes for Tameka
600

5
8

375 votes for Hunter
600

60

375

165 votes for Dakota
1 6 5

Jasmine got 19 out of 25 questions correct on her math test. What percent of the questions did she get correct?
19
25

4
4

76
100
Percent means out of 100…
Jasmine got
76 percent of the questions correct…
7 6