Lesson 11: Percentage Contexts | Unit 4: Proportional Relationships and Percentages

A car dealership pays $8,350 for a car. They mark up the price by 17.4% to get the retail price. What is the retail price of the car at this dealership?

A store has a 20%-off sale on pants. With this discount, the price of one pair of pants before tax is $15.20. What was the original price of the pants?

Lin is shopping for a couch with her dad and hears him ask the salesperson, “How much is your commission?” The salesperson says that her commission is $$5\frac12\%$$ of the selling price. How much commission will the salesperson earn by selling a couch for $495?

Lin is shopping for a couch with her dad and hears him ask the salesperson, “How much is your commission?” The salesperson says that her commission is $$5\frac12\%$$ of the selling price. How much money will the store get from the sale of the couch if the selling price is $1000?

A furniture store pays a wholesale price for a mattress. Then, the store marks up the retail price to 150% of the wholesale price. Later, they put the mattress on sale for 50% off of the retail price. A customer just bought the mattress on sale and paid $1,200. What was the retail price of the mattress before the discount?

A furniture store pays a wholesale price for a mattress. Then, the store marks up the retail price to 150% of the wholesale price. Later, they put the mattress on sale for 50% off of the retail price. A customer just bought the mattress on sale and paid $1,200. What was the wholesale price, before the markup?

Select the word from the following list that best describes the situation: You deposit money in a savings account, and every year the amount of money in the account increases by 2.5%.

Select the word from the following list that best describes the situation: For every car sold, a car salesman is paid 6% of the car’s price.

Select the word from the following list that best describes the situation: Someone who eats at a restaurant pays an extra 20% of the food price. This extra money is kept by the person who served the food.