Word problems with percentages

Difficulty Standard · Set 2sjaje

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1
50% of the 460 tickets for a concert have been sold. How many are left?
2
50% of the 100 tickets for a concert have been sold. How many are left?
3
75% of the 500 tickets for a concert have been sold. How many are left?
4
75% of the 560 tickets for a concert have been sold. How many are left?
5
5% of the 240 tickets for a concert have been sold. How many are left?
6
40% of the 400 tickets for a concert have been sold. How many are left?
7
40% of the 280 tickets for a concert have been sold. How many are left?
8
10% of the 260 tickets for a concert have been sold. How many are left?
9
20% of the 520 tickets for a concert have been sold. How many are left?
10
75% of the 440 tickets for a concert have been sold. How many are left?
11
20% of the 160 tickets for a concert have been sold. How many are left?
12
5% of the 300 tickets for a concert have been sold. How many are left?
13
80% of the 360 tickets for a concert have been sold. How many are left?
14
30% of the 440 tickets for a concert have been sold. How many are left?
15
30% of the 400 tickets for a concert have been sold. How many are left?
16
50% of the 260 tickets for a concert have been sold. How many are left?
17
25% of the 560 tickets for a concert have been sold. How many are left?
18
30% of the 60 tickets for a concert have been sold. How many are left?
19
40% of the 400 tickets for a concert have been sold. How many are left?
20
50% of the 160 tickets for a concert have been sold. How many are left?

What is in this set

The numbers in this set run from 5 to 600.
A careful solution takes 3 written steps on average.
The mistake this set invites most often, in 90% of the problems: that is how many have been SOLD; the question asks how many are left.
Answers are a whole number.

Drawing 240 problems from this page produced 172 different ones, 72% — so a sheet of 20 is a new sheet almost every time.

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.