Percentage Word Problems
Section: Word ProblemsBank code: WRD-PCTGRE frequency: HighPro
1. Core Idea
This capsule is about applying percentages inside a story. (For the mechanics, see Arithmetic > Percentages.)
The only genuinely hard part of a percent word problem is identifying the base — the "of what" that the percentage refers to. Circle the base before you compute anything.
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