Grade 6 Math Practice Test: Converting Fractions, Decimals and Percents
- Converting Fractions, Decimals and Percents
- 10 questions
- 12 minutes
This test practices writing the same amount as a fraction, a decimal and a percent, and comparing amounts written in different forms. Tip: percent means "per hundred," so a fraction with denominator 100 turns straight into a percent.
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Question 1
What is 35 written as a percent?
Correct answer: D
35 = 60100 = 60%. 35% just writes the digits 3 and 5 together.
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Question 2
What is 0.07 written as a percent?
Correct answer: C
0.07 is 7 hundredths, and 7 hundredths is 7%. 70% would be 0.70.
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Question 3
What is 45% written as a fraction in simplest form?
Correct answer: B
45% = 45100, and dividing the numerator and denominator by 5 gives 920. 925 equals 36%, not 45%.
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Question 4
What is 18 written as a decimal?
Correct answer: D
1 ÷ 8 = 0.125. 0.18 just writes the digits 1 and 8 after a decimal point.
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Question 5
What is 125% written as a decimal?
Correct answer: A
125% = 125100 = 1.25. A percent greater than 100% is a number greater than 1.
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Question 6
Which number is the greatest?
Correct answer: B
As decimals the numbers are 58 = 0.625, 62% = 0.62, and 0.6 = 35 = 0.60. 0.625 is the greatest.
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Question 7
Which list is in order from least to greatest?
Correct answer: C
As decimals: 0.3 = 0.300, 13 ≈ 0.333, 35% = 0.35 and 25 = 0.4. 13 is less than 35%, so it comes before it.
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Question 8
In a grid of 100 equal squares, 36 squares are shaded. What fraction of the grid is shaded, in simplest form?
Correct answer: A
36100 simplifies to 925 when you divide the numerator and denominator by 4. 920 is 45%, not 36%.
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Question 9
In a class of 20 students, 7 students walk to school. What percent of the class walks to school?
Correct answer: D
720 = 35100 = 35% (multiply the numerator and denominator by 5). 7% would be 7 out of 100 students.
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Question 10
Which shows 2 34 written as a decimal and as a percent?
Correct answer: A
34 = 0.75, so 2 34 = 2.75, and 2.75 × 100 = 275%. 27.5% moves the decimal point only one place.
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