Remember that 50 means half so to find 50 of a number just divide it by 2. So the question is asking 9 is what PERCENT of 12. Solving percent word problems that involve finding a sale price given original price and discount finding an original price given sale price and discount and finding sale price given profit.
Percentage problems usually work off of some version of the sentence this is some percentage of that which translates to this some decimal that.
20 of some number is one fifth 20100 15 part of the number. For these you calculate the markup or markdown in absolute terms you find by how much the quantity changed and then you calculate the percent change relative to the original value. So the question is asking 9 is what PERCENT of 12. In these worksheets your students will solve word problems that involve calculating percentages.