PERCENTAGE WORD PROBLEMS 6.3A - Find the answers

Oct 22, 2026

PERCENTAGE WORD PROBLEMS 6.3A provides six practice problems where students calculate unknown values using percent relationships. It includes scenarios involving score increases, saving for a laptop, distance covered with a percentage increase, converting a percentage of free time into total time, scaling fish counts from an angelfish percentage, and distributing chocolate portions by given percentages before finding the original quantity. Answers round to the nearest whole number.

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Percentage Word Problems 6.3A

Problems 1-6

Answers 1-6

Name Date PERCENTAGE WORD PROBLEMS 6.3A Find the answers to these percentage word problems. Round your answers to the nearest whole number where appropriate. | 1) Captain scores 120 points on Space Invaders. Tyger scores 10% more points than Captain. How many points does | | | --- | --- | | Tyger score? | | | 2) Frazer is saving up for a new laptop. He has saved 60% of the amount so far. If the laptop costs $320, how much does | | | --- | --- | | more does he need to save? | | | 3) Sally sprints 300 yards in a minute. Quadra runs 20% further than Sally in the same time. | | | --- | --- | | How far did Quadra sprint? | | 4) Newton spends 25% of his free time each day reading. If he spends 40 minutes reading, how much free time does he have in hours and minutes? | 5) There are some fish in an aquarium. 40% of the fish are angelfish. If there are 12 angelfish in the aquarium, how many fish | | | --- | --- | | altogether? | | 6) Sally buys a tin of chocolates. She gives a quarter of the chocolates to Tyger, 10% to Newton, and 15% to Frazer. She keeps the remaining 15 chocolates for herself. How many chocolates were in the tin? Name Date PERCENTAGE WORD PROBLEMS 6.3A ANSWERS Find the answers to these percentage word problems. Round your answers to the nearest whole number where appropriate. | 1) Captain scores 120 points on Space Invaders. Tyger scores 10% more points than Captain. How many points does Tyger score? | | | --- | --- | | 10% of 120 = 12 | | | So Tyger scored 120 + 12 = 132 points. | | 2) Frazer is saving up for a new laptop. He has saved 60% of the amount so far. If the laptop costs $320, how much does more does he need to save? He has saved 60% so he still needs to save 40% more. 40% of 320 = 0.4 x 320 = 128 He still needs to save $128 more. 3) Sally sprints 300 yards in a minute. Quadra runs 20% further than Sally in the same time. How far did Quadra sprint? 10% of 300 = 0.2 x 300 = 60 Quadra sprints 300 + 60 = 360 yards. | 4) Newton spends 25% of his free time each day reading. If he spends 40 minutes reading, how much free time does he have in hours and minutes? | | | --- | --- | | 25% of free time = 40 minutes So 100% of free time = 25% x 4 | | | 40 minutes x 4 = 160 minutes = 2 hours 40 minutes | | | 5) There are some fish in an aquarium. 40% of the fish are angelfish. If there are 12 angelfish in the aquarium, how many fish | | | --- | --- | | altogether?
40% of fish = 12 angelfish So 20% of fish = 6 fish
100% of fish = 40% + 40% + 20% | | | So 100% of fish = 12 + 12 + 6 = 30 fish
There are 30 fish altogether in the aquarium. | | 6) Sally buys a tin of chocolates. She gives a quarter of the chocolates to Tyger, 10% to Newton, and 15% to Frazer. She keeps the remaining 15 chocolates for herself. How many chocolates were in the tin? One quarter = 25% . 25% + 10% + 15% = 50% . There are 50% of chocolates left = 18 chocs. So 100% of chocolates = 18 + 18 = 36 So there were 36 chocolates in the tin.

FAQs

How do you find a value when one amount is a percent more than another?

Compute the percent of the original amount, then add it to the original. For example, 10% more than 120 is 120 + (0.10 × 120).

How do you solve a problem that gives only a percentage of total time?

Let the given percentage correspond to the known minutes, then scale up to 100% using a multiplier. For instance, if 25% equals 40 minutes, then 100% is 4 times that.

How do you work out the total number when a fraction of a group equals a known count?

Use the given percent to find what percent corresponds to the known count, then combine parts to reach 100%. Example: if 40% equals 12 fish, then 100% totals 30 fish.

Oct 22, 2026

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