PSAT Math › How to find the part from the whole with percentage
A total of 200,000 votes were cast for two opposing candidates. If the losing candidate received 40% of the vote, how many votes did the winning candidate receive?
Your friend has 100 pounds of bacon and offers to share 45% of it with you. If you promised your mom 30% and your cousin 25% of your share, how many pounds of bacon do you end up with?
The above graph represents the results of a general election for two seats on the city council of Lincoln City. Frankllin and Hall are Democrats; Johns and Lamont are Republicans; Carson is an independent.
6,219 people voted for Republicans. Which of the following is the best estimate for the number of people who voted for Democrats?
Becky and Jason are running for class president, and each of the 30 students in the class voted. Becky received 60% of the votes. How many students voted for Jason?
The above graph represents the results of a general election for mayor of Washington City. Hall is a Republican; Johns is a Democrat; the other three are independents.
5,328 people voted for independent candidates. Which is the best estimate for the number of people who voted for Hall?
The pie chart illustrates how Carla allocates her money each week.
If she spends $200 on groceries each week, how much does she spend on rent?
Three salesmen, Gor, Levon, and Raffi, competed to sell the highest number of cars in the month of August. A total of 250 cars were sold.
Gor sold 100 cars. Levon sold 62% of the remaining cars, and Raffi sold the rest.
How many cars did Raffi sell?
There are pounds of cargo currently on a ship. After
pounds have been taken from the ship and transferred to a warehouse, then, in terms of
and
, what percent of cargo is still on the ship?
A school is made up of 400 students. Each student must belong to one of the four clubs shown in the chart below. How many students are in chorus?
A container has ten liters of a twenty percent sucrose solution by volume. How many liters of the solution should be removed from the container and then replaced by the same volume of a forty percent sucrose solution, so that the final solution is ten liters of a twenty-five percent sucrose solution?