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🍕 6th grade math · Fractions & Decimals

What is a percent?

Percent means out of 100. 35% is 35 out of every 100, or the ratio 35 : 100. To write a ratio as a percent, scale it to 100. 3 out of 4 is 75 out of 100, so 75%.

Worked example

A grid has 100 squares and 59 are shaded. What percent of the squares are shaded?
Answer: 59%
Percent means out of 100. 59 of 100 squares is 59%.

For grown-ups: Percent as "per hundred"; % symbol; common equivalents (50%, 25%, 10%). Below: three problems to try with the worked answers, and a free printable sheet. Children can practise the same skill as a game, with no sign-up and no ads.

  • CCSS 6.RP.A.3c
What this practises, for teachers

Practices percent as "per hundred"; % symbol; common equivalents (50%, 25%, 10%) (6.RP.A.3c). A printable sheet with its answer key, worked answers on the page, no accounts.

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Try three

  1. A grid has 100 squares and 95 are shaded. What percent of the squares are shaded?
    Show the answer and how
    Answer: 95%
    Percent means out of 100. 95 of 100 squares is 95%.
  2. Write 2150 as a percent. (Think: how many out of 100?)
    Show the answer and how
    Answer: 42%
    Percent is out of 100. 21/50 = 21 ÷ 50 of 100 = 21 × 2 out of 100 = 42%.
  3. Write 12 as a percent. (Think: how many out of 100?)
    Show the answer and how
    Answer: 50%
    Percent is out of 100. 1/2 = 1 ÷ 2 of 100 = 1 × 50 out of 100 = 50%.

Before and after

Learn first: Decimals as tenths, hundredths (4th), Make equivalent fractions (4th)

Comes next: Percent of a number (6th)

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What is a percent? (6th grade)

  1. A grid has 100 squares. 21% of them are shaded. How many squares are shaded?
  2. A grid has 100 squares and 88 are shaded. What percent of the squares are shaded?
  3. A grid has 100 squares and 31 are shaded. What percent of the squares are shaded?
  4. A grid has 100 squares and 16 are shaded. What percent of the squares are shaded?
  5. A team won 8 of its 25 games. What percent of its games did it win?
  6. A class has 2 students and 1 walk to school. What percent walk?
  7. A class has 4 students and 3 walk to school. What percent walk?
  8. Write 34 as a percent. (Think: how many out of 100?)
  9. A tank is 80% full. Which sentence says the same thing?
  10. Write 0.6 as a percent. (Think: how many out of 100?)
  11. Write 610 as a percent. (Think: how many out of 100?)
  12. Write 0.6 as a percent. (Think: how many out of 100?)

Answer key

  1. 21 squares
  2. 88%
  3. 31%
  4. 16%
  5. 32%
  6. 50%
  7. 75%
  8. 75%
  9. 16 out of every 20
  10. 60%
  11. 60%
  12. 60%

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