Math Percents - 6th Grade

Practice finding percents, calculating parts and wholes from percents, and converting between fractions and percents.

20 Questions Published

Questions

Question 1 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

What is 5% of 520?

  1. 26
  2. 52
  3. 104
  4. 494
Question 2 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

15 out of 100  prefer apple pie and the rest prefer strawberry. What percent prefer strawberry?

  1. 15%
  2. 75%
  3. 85%
  4. 65%
Question 3 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Out of 60 students, 10% attended the dance.  How many attended the dance?

  1. 600
  2. 6
  3. 10
  4. 60
Question 4 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Out of 240 people, 20% were teachers.  How many were teachers?

  1. 48
  2. 1200
  3. 20
  4. 40
Question 5 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

I had 800 t-shirts. If 400  are a size small, what percent of the t-shirts are small?

  1. 20%
  2. 30%
  3. 40%
  4. 50%
Question 6 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

I planted 25 carrot plants. A rabbit ate 6 of the plants. What percent does Mike have left? 

  1. 19%
  2. 24%
  3. 76%
  4. 81%
Question 7 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

What is 80% of 80?

  1. 16
  2. 60
  3. 64
  4. 100
Question 8 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

A man left his waiter a $10 tip that was 20% of his bill. How much was the man’s bill? 

  1. $2
  2. $40
  3. $50
  4. $60
Question 9 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

He scored 69 items on his test correctly. He scored 92% correctly. How many were on the test? 

  1. 75
  2. 63
  3. 92
  4. 69
Question 10 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

I had 8 gallons of gas. This is 40% of the total amount of gas. How many total gallons of gas?

  1. 20
  2. 18
  3. 12
Question 11 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Out of 15 students, 12 said they prefer science. What percent prefer science?

  1. 12%
  2. 80%
  3. 15%
  4. 60%
Question 12 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

If 70% of 150 students attended a band concert, how many students attended the concert?

  1. 70
  2. 80
  3. 85
  4. 105
Question 13 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

15 out of 25 boys chose to go swimming. What percent of the boys chose to go swimming? 

  1. 15
  2. 25
  3. 30
  4. 60
Question 14 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

If 40% of the students preferred cats to dogs, what fraction preferred cats?

  1. 4/100
  2. 40/10
  3. 2/5
  4. 4/5
Question 15 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Andrew’s team won 35% of their games. If his team won 7 games, how many games did they play? 

  1. 3
  2. 20
  3. 35
  4. 10
Question 16 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

I had 2 red candies, 9 orange, 4 purple.  What percent was orange?

  1. 60%
  2. 6%
  3. 9%
  4. 15%
Question 17 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

The sale price is $150.  It's 30% of the original price. What was the original price?

  1. $0.002
  2. $45
  3. $500
  4. $450
Question 18 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

4 boys like red shirts, 11 like blue, and 10 like black. What percentage like red shirts? 

  1. 4%
  2. 16%
  3. 25%
  4. 19%
Question 19 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

25% of the students are in art class. There are 600 students in all.How many are in art class? 

  1. 150
  2. 2400
  3. 25
  4. 300
Question 20 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

12 out of 50 students said pizza was their favorite lunch.  What percent is this?

  1. 12
  2. 20
  3. 24
  4. 25

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