Word problems with percentages

Difficulty Stretch · Set p8j74o

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1
10% of the 460 tickets for a concert have been sold. How many are left?
2
40% of the 400 tickets for a concert have been sold. How many are left?
3
20% of the 660 tickets for a concert have been sold. How many are left?
4
25% of the 400 tickets for a concert have been sold. How many are left?
5
80% of the 1100 tickets for a concert have been sold. How many are left?
6
25% of the 580 tickets for a concert have been sold. How many are left?
7
30% of the 520 tickets for a concert have been sold. How many are left?
8
10% of the 1120 tickets for a concert have been sold. How many are left?
9
20% of the 320 tickets for a concert have been sold. How many are left?
10
5% of the 200 tickets for a concert have been sold. How many are left?
11
30% of the 660 tickets for a concert have been sold. How many are left?
12
40% of the 180 tickets for a concert have been sold. How many are left?
13
25% of the 440 tickets for a concert have been sold. How many are left?
14
60% of the 160 tickets for a concert have been sold. How many are left?
15
30% of the 380 tickets for a concert have been sold. How many are left?
16
40% of the 160 tickets for a concert have been sold. How many are left?
17
80% of the 40 tickets for a concert have been sold. How many are left?
18
30% of the 920 tickets for a concert have been sold. How many are left?
19
40% of the 100 tickets for a concert have been sold. How many are left?
20
25% of the 600 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 1,200.
A careful solution takes 3 written steps on average.
The mistake this set invites most often, in 93% 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 204 different ones, 85% — 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.