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Lesson 4: 6-4 Estimate to Find Percent — Practice Questions

  1. 1. Estimate the value of $26\%$ of $79$ by rounding both the percent and the number to create a simpler problem. The estimated value is ___.

  2. 2. To estimate $51\%$ of $303$, you can round to $50\%$ of $300$. What is the resulting estimate? ___

  3. 3. A restaurant bill is $158$ dollars. To estimate a $24\%$ tip, you round the percent to $25\%$ and the bill to $160$ dollars. What is the estimated tip? ___ dollars

  4. 4. Estimate $11\%$ of $695$ by first rounding the percent and the number to compatible values. The estimate is ___.

  5. 5. A store is offering a $19\%$ discount on a bike that costs $402$ dollars. Estimate the discount by rounding the percent and the price. The estimated discount is ___ dollars.

  6. 6. At a local animal shelter, 48 out of 160 animals are cats. What percentage of the animals at the shelter are cats?

    • A. 25%
    • B. 30%
    • C. 33%
    • D. 48%
  7. 7. A video game requires an 800 megabyte (MB) download. If the download is 65% complete, how many more megabytes must still be downloaded? ___

  8. 8. Three schools held a fundraiser. School A raised $510$ of its $600$ goal. School B raised $560$ of its $700$ goal. School C raised $630$ of its $900$ goal. Which school raised the highest percentage of its goal?

    • A. School A
    • B. School B
    • C. School C
    • D. All raised the same percentage
  9. 9. A library has 3,500 books. If 4.2% of the books are new releases, how many new release books does the library have? ___