Percent practice
Percentage is a way of expressing a number, especially a ratio, as a fraction of 100. See also our verbal problems in percent orexamples1, examples2, examples3, examples4, examples5.
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Percentage in word math problems
- Built-up area
John build-up area 4.3 x 6.3 = 27.09 m² with building with a wall thickness 25 cm. How many centimeters would he have to subtract from the thickness of the walls that the built-up area fell by 5%? - Road
The angle of a straight road is approximately 12 degrees. Determine the percentage of this road. - Insurance
The house owner is insured against natural disasters and pays 0.05% annually of the value of the house 88 Eur. Calculate the value of the house. Calculate the probability of disaster if you know that 50% of the insurance is to pay damages. - Discounts on rail (ZSSK)
The railway company ZSSK offers a discount of 40% (SENIOR RAILPLUS) for 9.9 Eur/year. Calculate the real discount rate as a percentage, where passengers will travel 5 Eur per week. - Human buying irrationality
I longer watch processors for Socket A on the secondhand market, Athlon XP 1.86GHz with a PR rating of 2500+ costs $7, and Athlon XP 2.16Ghz with a PR rating of 3000+ currently costs $16. Calculate: About what percentage of the Athlon XP 2.16Ghz is more p - Promile
Calculate the 17.6 ‰ of 353. - Iron
Iron ore contains 61% iron. How much iron ore is needed to produce 29 tons of iron? - Event probability
The probability of event N in 5 independent experiments is 0.4. What is the probability that the event N occurs in one experiment (chance is the same)? - Cone and cube
About what percentage has cone with base radius r larger volume than a same high cube with square base with edge length r? - Rectangles
How many rectangles with area 8855 cm² whose sides are natural numbers? - Date game
Let now is Tuesday. What day is after 229 days? Write the result as a number: 1=Monday, 2=Tuesday, 3=Wednesday, 4=Thursday, 5=Friday, 6=Saturday, 7=Sunday. - Web server
Calculate how many average minutes the web server is unavailable a year if the availability is 99%. - Rectangle
In a rectangle with sides, 8 and 9 mark the diagonal. What is the probability that a randomly selected point within the rectangle is closer to the diagonal than any side of the rectangle? - Sea water
Seawater contains about 6.5% salt. How many dm³ of distilled water must we pour into 21 dm³ of seawater to get water with 1.2% salt? - Sea water
Mixing 63 kg of seawater with 43 kg rainwater is created water containing 2.7% salt. How much percent of seawater contains salt?
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