Percentages - math word problems

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Bike cost
The father gave his son € 100 to buy a bicycle, which was 40% of the total amount of the bicycle. How much did the bike cost?
Solutions, mixtures
We have 2 liters of 20% solution available. How much 70% solution do we need to add to it to get a 30% solution?
Beer tapping
When checking compliance with the beer tapping, it was found that 60% of the offered beers were underfilled. The others were fine. Thus, instead of 0.5 l, the volume was 4.4 dcl on average. What was the volume of one average underfilled beer?
The number 72
The number 72 increase by 25%. By how much % will you have to reduce the number you created to get the number 72 again?
The test
The test contains four questions, and there are five different answers to each of them, of which only one is correct, the others are incorrect. What is the probability that a student who does not know the answer to any question will guess the right answer
Say we
Say we have 70 voting delegates and we need a 2/3 vote What would that number be? Also same as above but in this virtual world, it converts to percentages. What would the % number of positive votes be?
Christmas holidays
How many percent take Christmas holidays lasting 18 days from a school year that lasts 303 days? Round the result to two decimal places
Double price reduction
The price of TV has been reduced twice. First by 15% and later by another 10% of the reduced price. After this double price reduction, the TV was sold for 8,874 crowns. What was the original price of the TV?
Part-time workers
Three part-time workers received CZK 1,235 for their work. The first received 20% less than the second and the third received 45 CZK more than the second. Determine how many crowns (CZK) each of them received.
In the classroom
There are 30 boys and a few girls in the class. In the six months, 28 boys and all girls benefited, which was 95% of all pupils. How many pupils are there in the classroom?
Contestants
The three best contestants are to divide the total prize of CZK 4,200. The second gets 20% more than the third. And the first one gets 200 CZK less than the second and the third together. How much will everyone get?
Metal sheets
How much metal sheet is needed to produce 8 gutters 4 m long and 12 cm in diameter? During production joints calculate at 3% of total consumption.
All use computer
It is reported that 72% of working women use computers at work. Choose 3 women at random, find the probability that all 3 women use a computer in their jobs.
Students
Students solve word problems. They received 3 points for each correctly solved task. Four points were deducted for a task that was not solved or incorrectly solved. Tomas solved a total of 15 tasks and scored 24 points. How many tasks did he solve correct
Reward
Janko and Peter divided the reward from the brigade so that Peter got 5/8 of the reward. What percentage of Janko's reward got?
Hiking trail
The newly built hiking trail leads 25% through the field, 3/8 of the trail leads through the forest and the remaining 9 km along the river. How long is the train?
Rectangular land
On a rectangular land with dimensions of 35 m and 18.5 m is a house with a square floor plan with a side of 14 m. What % of the land is not occupied?
Price reduction
The product is sold for 360 CZK and the sales profit is 30%. By what percentage the sales profit will be reduced if I reduce the price of the product by 10%?
Probability
$fractions_1$ How probable is a randomly selected three-digit number divisible by five or seven?
In the
In the workshop, it was necessary to quickly complete the production of veils for the hospital. The workshop staff promised to work an additional 240 hours to produce this order in March. The workshop has 8 employees who work 160 hours a month. What perce