Finding a percentage of a number

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What is 50% of 180?
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What is 10% of 200?
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What is 50% of 60?
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What is 25% of 100?
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What is 10% of 200?
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What is 50% of 140?
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What is 10% of 200?
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What is 25% of 140?
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What is 25% of 140?
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What is 50% of 180?
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What is 50% of 180?
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What is 50% of 180?
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What is 50% of 180?
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What is 50% of 120?
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What is 50% of 140?
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What is 50% of 120?
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What is 50% of 60?
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What is 10% of 200?
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What is 25% of 80?
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What is 50% of 160?

What is in this set

The numbers in this set run from 10 to 200.
Every problem in it will come out at a whole number.
A careful solution takes 2 written steps on average.
The mistake this set invites most often, in 100% of the problems: the percentage was multiplied as a whole number.
Answers are a whole number.

Drawing 240 problems from this page produced 27 different ones, 11% — so a sheet of 20 will come back to a problem you have seen — there are only so many sensible ones of this kind.

The same skill, harder or easier

We would put this in front of a grade 6 class. That is our judgement, not a standard, and it is printed here so you can disagree with it. Everything else we put in that year.

Next to this

What percentage one number is of another

Numbers 3–200.

Decreasing a number by a percentage

Numbers 5–200; every one will go down.

All of percentages

11 skills in this topic, 33 sets between them.

Printing it

The printed sheet carries no menus and no advertising, and the answer key is on its own page.