6th grade · Math · Unit 4 of 21
Percents & Budgets
Discounts, deals and saving
What your child practices
Finding percents of amounts, working out sale prices and savings, comparing unit prices to find the better buy, and planning a simple budget and savings goal.
New York State Learning Standards learning standard: NY-6.RP.3 · solving percent and rate problems with ratio reasoning
How we explain it
Children can open this short lesson before they practice.
- Percent means out of 100.
- Find 10% by dividing by 10. Find 1% by dividing by 100.
- For a discount, find the percent of the price, then subtract it.
Example: A $40 shirt is 25% off. What is the sale price? 25% is one quarter: $40 ÷ 4 = $10 off. $40 − $10 = $30. Answer: $30
Percents & Budgets in New York
In the New York State Learning Standards, this is unit 4 of 21 in 6th grade Math, after Decimal × and ÷ and before Patterns & Graphs.
Gradelings describes a child's practice on this unit as Beginning, Approaching, Meeting or Exceeding (Four practice steps). That reflects practice, not a report-card mark: the teacher decides the mark.
Sample questions
A taste of this unit. In the app, questions change every time and get easier or harder to match your child.
Question 1
Maya buys a pair of headphones that normally costs $116. The store takes 25% off. How many dollars does Maya save?
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29
Hint: The amount saved is the discount: 25% of $116. 25% is one quarter, so divide $116 by 4.
Question 2
Which percent is equal to 1/2?
- 50%
- 2%
- 12%
- 5%
50%
Hint: Percent means "out of 100". Make an equivalent fraction with 100 as the denominator: multiply the top and bottom of 1/2 by 50.
Question 3
A pair of running shoes costs $44. It is on sale for 25% off. What is the sale price?
👟25% off- $33
- $11
- $19
- $55
$33
Hint: First find the discount: 25% of $44. Then subtract the discount from the original price.
Question 4
What is 40% of 115?
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46
Hint: Find 10% of 115 by dividing by 10. Then 40% is 4 times as much.
Question 5
What percent of the bar is shaded?
answer box%
25 %
Hint: The whole bar is 100%. It has 4 equal parts, so each part is 25%. Multiply by the number of shaded parts.
Question 6
Maya has a monthly budget of $80. After paying for everything in the table, how many dollars are left to save?
Maya's spending this month Item Cost Art supplies $3 Lunches $21 Gift for a friend $8 answer box
48
Hint: Add up the costs first, then subtract the total from $80.