maths

WALT solve word problems (decimals, percentages and fractions)
Independant questions
In a class, 60% of the children are girls.
What percentage are boys? 40%
If there are 30 students altogether, how many are boys and how many are girls? 18 girls 12 boys
In a packet of skittles, 27% are red.
What percentages are NOT red?73%
In a group of children, 78% can swim. What percentage are non-swimmers? 22%
Frazer scores 45% in a spelling test.
What percentage did he get wrong?55%
If the test was out of 100, how many did he get right? 45
How many did he get wrong? 55
Auckland Blues have won 45% of their games and lost 42% of their games. How many did they tie?
Children voted for their favourite sports out of basketball, football and hockey. 35% chose basketball and 28% chose hockey. What percentage chose football? 37%
There are 60 beads in a bag. The beads are red, yellow or blue. 40% of the beads are blue. 5/12 of the beads are red. How many beads are yellow? 18%
In the sale, jumpers are on the offer “buy 2, save ⅓ off the price”. Jeans are also currently 30% off. Jumpers normally cost $45 and jeans cost $50.  What is the cost of buying 2 jumpers and 2 pairs of jeans? 2 Jumpers is 60$ and 2 jeans are 70$
A remote control car is $50 but is on sale for 10% off. How much is the sale price? 45$
A Chromebook is $450. If you buy insurance (which is $29.99) at the same time, you get a 20% discount on both the Chromebooks and the insurance. How much would this be? 95.998
In a survey of 300 adults, 15% didn’t know how to ride a bike. How many people don’t know how to ride a bike? 45
Brisoces has a sale for 30% off storewide. How much would each of these items cost on sale?
Heater - $69.99 = 20.997
Kettle - $19.99 = 5.997
Towel - $6.99 = 2.097
A set of plates, bowls etc $49.99 = 14.997
Vase $10 = 3
Uncle John is looking to buy a new TV. The warehouse has one that is ⅓ off, Harvey Norman has a 25% off sale and Noel Leeming has ⅖ off the price. Which of these offers the greatest discount? If the TV cost $200 at each shop, which would be the cheapest and by how much? Harvy nomans are the cheapest it cost 50 the warehouse cost 67 and noel leeming cost 80 so  Harvey Norman is cheaper than warehouse by 17 and cheaper than noel leeming by 30
In a class of 30 students, ⅕  are Fijian, 2/6 are Samoan, 30% are Tongan. How many students are of other ethnicities? 5
In the whole school (250 students), 10% are year 1, 10% are year 2, ⅕ are year 3 and 4 (together), 30% are from the year 5 and 6’s, and the rest of the students are year 7 and 8. How many students are year 7 and 8? 75