Finding Friendly Percentages

Question 1

Which diagram represents a fraction equivalent to 75%?

Revolt · Accepted Answer

A bar diagram with 15 shaded squares and 5 unshaded squares.

Question 2

Which percent is equivalent to ?

Revolt · Accepted Answer

50%

Question 3

What percent is represented by the shaded portion of this 10 × 10 grid?

Revolt · Accepted Answer

40%

Question 4

What percent is equivalent to ?

Revolt · Accepted Answer

66 and two-thirds percent

Question 5

What percent is equivalent to ?

Revolt · Accepted Answer

30%

Question 6

Which fraction is equivalent to ?

Revolt · Accepted Answer

, because and

Question 7

What percent is equivalent to ?

Revolt · Accepted Answer

5%

Question 8

Miguel tells his teacher that is the same as 20%. Which best justifies Miguel’s answer?

Revolt · Accepted Answer

5 goes into 100 twenty times, and 1 times 20 is 20, so 20% is the answer.

Question 9

Harriet used the work below to determine the percent equivalent to .Step 1: Step 2: Step 3: Step 4: What was Harriet’s error?

Revolt · Accepted Answer

In Step 2, she divided 8 by 100 instead of 100 by 8, so she cannot multiply the numerator by the factor.

Question 10

Which is the best estimate to the nearest one percent of ?

Revolt · Accepted Answer

38%

Finding Friendly Percentages Answers