SBI-Percent of Change Guided Practice Flashcards
While grocery shopping at Target, you are about to buy a 24 oz. bottle of ketchup. But then on a special sale rack you see a larger bottle of ketchup that costs the same as the original bottle but contains 15% more ketchup. How many ounces does the second bottle contain?
Pa’-sun works for his father at the YMCA. The first summer he worked, he received $6.55 per hour. If he received a 15% raise the following summer, how much did he get paid each hour the second summer?
There is great variation between day and night temperatures in summer in the deserts of Rajasthan, India. Find the percent of change in degrees Fahrenheit in the deserts of Rajasthan from 120°F in the daytime on May 5, 2006, to 84°F that night.
Desert temperatures in India are very extreme. On average in the summertime, the thermometer reads 120°F. The average percent of change from summer to winter in degrees Fahrenheit is a decrease of 40%. Find the average degrees Fahrenheit in the winter.
As in Indian deserts, the temperatures in the Kalahari Desert in South Africa are also very extreme. The winter temperatures average 50°F. The percent of change in degrees Fahrenheit from winter to summer temperature is 140%. What is the average summer temperature?
Let’s look at the temperatures in the Sonoran Desert in Arizona. On average in the winter, the thermometer reads 50°F; on average in the summer, the thermometer reads 90°F. What is the percent of change from winter to summer in degrees Fahrenheit?
In the first year that Kim played basketball for her school team, she scored a total of 24points. In the second year, she scored 42 points. In her third year, Kim was the star of the team and scored 63 points. What percent did Kim’s total number of points scored increase from her 1st to 3rd years?
At JFK High School, the senior class had 460 students. The freshman class that same year had 550 students. Assuming the freshman class will eventually have the same number of students as the senior class, what percent of the freshman class will leave the school before their senior year?
