Practice with Percents

Complete these exercises and check your answers.

Practice Test

In the following exercises, convert each percent to ⓐ a decimal ⓑ a simplified fraction.

  1. 24\%

  2. 350\%


In the following exercises, convert each fraction to a percent. (Round to 3 decimal places if needed.)

  1. \frac{1}{3}


In the following exercises, solve the percent problem.

  1. 65 is what percent of 260?

  2. 150% of what number is 60?

  3. The total number of vehicles on one freeway dropped from 84,000 to 74,000. Find the percent decrease (round to the nearest tenth of a percent).

Source: Rice University, https://openstax.org/books/prealgebra-2e/pages/6-practice-test
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