Grade 5 Percents Word Problems
Grade 5 percents word problems sheet: 10 problems on .
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Three different problem sets — same skill, same layout, fresh numbers.
Preview — Set A
Read each problem carefully. Show your work, then write your answer on the line.
- 1.A class has 240 students and 80% of them walk to school. How many students walk?
- 2.Sam has saved 30% of the $500 needed for a bike. How much has Sam saved?
- 3.Noah answered 75 of 100 quiz questions correctly. What percent is that?
- 4.Noah answered 90 of 300 quiz questions correctly. What percent is that?
- 5.Willa answered 192 of 240 quiz questions correctly. What percent is that?
- 6.Carla has saved 75% of the $100 needed for a bike. How much has Carla saved?
- 7.A class has 500 students and 50% of them walk to school. How many students walk?
- 8.Ben has saved 20% of the $50 needed for a bike. How much has Ben saved?
- 9.A class has 150 students and 10% of them walk to school. How many students walk?
- 10.A class has 400 students and 5% of them walk to school. How many students walk?
What this worksheet covers
There are ten story problems here — one page to work, one page of answers to check against — and Sets B and C repeat the layout with different numbers. Within that, every problem is set in a short situation, so the first decision is which operation it calls for and the quantities are amounts of money, so answers need a dollar or cent sign to be complete. Problems 4 and 7, for instance, are "Noah answered 90 of 300 quiz questions correctly. What…" and "A class has 500 students and 50% of them walk to school.…".
Skills practised
Grade 5 percents means percents as fractions and decimals, and benchmark percents of a number. Concretely, the sheet tests whether a student can read a situation and choose an operation before computing and carry money notation through to the answer.
About the word problems format
The 10 story problems each get a full line and an answer rule; problem 4, "Noah answered 90 of 300 quiz questions correctly. What…" is one, and the answer key writes the unit with every answer. Sales, tips, tests and savings are the contexts percent was invented for.
Set A, Set B and Set C
All three sets are produced by the site's deterministic generator from a fixed seed, so they are the same every time the site is built and the answer keys are exact. Where Set A's problem 6 is "Carla has saved 75% of the $100 needed for a bike. How much…", Set B's is "Tessa has saved 90% of the $240 needed for a bike. How much…".
How to use this worksheet
Give this word problems uninterrupted. At grade 5, percents is where procedure and recall have to run at the same time, and ten problems done in fragments hide which of the two is the problem. Mark the ten problems the same day using the key — an error caught immediately is a correction, and one caught next week is a habit.
One mistake to watch for
The percent is used as a plain number: 20% of 50 is answered 1,000 or 70. Problem 7 on this grade 5 word problems page, "A class has 500 students and 50% of them walk to school.…", is where to look for it.
The percent sign is being read as decoration and the "per hundred" is lost.
Rewrite every percent as a fraction over 100 or a decimal before computing, for as long as it takes to become automatic.
Other grade 5 percents formats
The same skill in the other formats available at this grade.
- Drill — Grade 5 Percents Drill, 30 problems
- Timed Drill — Grade 5 Percents Timed Drill, 72 problems
- Missing Number — Grade 5 Percents Missing Number, 24 problems
- Mixed Review — Grade 5 Percents Mixed Review, 30 problems
A step either side
The same format one grade down and one grade up — the easier sheet is often the faster fix when this one is not landing.
- Grade 6 Percents Word Problems — grade 6, 10 problems
Word Problems sheets in other grade 5 topics
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