01Question 1
Easy
A jacket regularly priced at $80 is on sale for 15% off the regular price. What is the sale price of the jacket, in dollars?
Problem-Solving and Data Analysis
SAT percentages practice questions
Percent of a number, percent increase and decrease, markups, discounts, tax, and one percent change followed by another.
Practice percentages 30 questions, no account needed.
The usual trap
A percent change is a percent of the starting amount. Dividing by the new amount, or adding and subtracting percents of different amounts, gives a tempting wrong answer.
Try three questions
Pick an answer to check it and see why. Practice sets also have grid-ins, where you type the answer.
02Question 2
Medium
A town's population grew from 8,000 to 9,200 over a decade. What was the percent increase?
03Question 3
Hard
During a holiday week, a hotel increased its nightly room rate by 50%. After the holiday week, the hotel will lower the rate so that it is 20% greater than the rate before the holiday week. By what percent should the hotel decrease the holiday-week rate?
Keep going
Start a set in this skill. Every answer comes with an explanation.
Practice percentages
30 questions in the bank: 5 Easy, 18 Medium, 7 Hard.