6th Grade Math (Math 6) · Chapter 6 · Lesson 6.3 · Printable PDF

Benchmark Percents and Mental Percent Worksheet with Answer Key

7 problems on mental percent with benchmark percents: 1%, 10%, 25%, 50% and 75%, building other percents from pieces, T-shirt shop sales, bike rentals, blacktop, flea market items, and comparing percents. 2 pages, with a worked answer key.

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What's on the worksheet

  1. Find each percent of a number in your head using a benchmark percent.
    10% of 2,4501% of 83025% of 34075% of 485% of 260
  2. Build each percent from benchmark pieces and show the pieces.
    21% of 40045% of 8052% of 30095% of 6011% of 700
  3. Word problem: how many of 300 T-shirts were white.
  4. Check Ryan's work finding 15% of the bike-share rentals.
  5. Word problem: meters of Elm Street finished by the road crew.
  6. Match each kind of flea market item to the nearest benchmark percent.
  7. Compare two percents of different numbers without exact work, and check a mistake.

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