The worksheet generator on this page produces 6th grade percent word problems worksheets with real, freshly randomised numbers — 20 of them per sheet by default — plus the answer key a parent or teacher needs to mark it quickly. The version loaded below opens with items in the shape of “Out of 50 students, 75% ride a bus. How many students ride a bus?” and “Ruby answered 25% of 80 questions correctly. How many were correct?”; the key lists 37.5 and 20 next to their question numbers.
‘New set of problems’ opens the generator in its own tab. There you can change the problem count and turn the answer key on or off. ‘Print or save as PDF’ opens the print dialog — choose Save as PDF in the printer list to keep the file. The sheet fits US Letter and A4, and the answer key prints on its own page.
These problems use benchmark percentages, so the reading, not the arithmetic, is the challenge.
Key words help and mislead in roughly equal measure. 'Altogether' usually means add and sometimes does not, so the child still has to picture the situation.
Answers should carry their units. A number without a unit is not an answer to a word problem, however correct the arithmetic.
The reliable routine is to read it twice, say what is being asked in your own words, write the number sentence, then calculate. Skipping straight to the numbers is what produces confident wrong answers.
These 6th grade percent word problems worksheets are commonly aligned with the problem-solving expectations for this grade, and the skill appears in most curricula somewhere around this point.
| # | Problem | Answer | What to check |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Out of 50 students, 75% ride a bus. How many students ride a bus? | 37.5 | Watch for: being thrown by unfamiliar names or objects |
| 2 | Ruby answered 25% of 80 questions correctly. How many were correct? | 20 | Check: answering a different question |
| 3 | A jacket costs 110 dollars with 15% off. How much is the discount? | 16.5 dollars | Look at: not checking whether the answer is sensible |
| 4 | Omar answered 10% of 50 questions correctly. How many were correct? | 5 | Ask about: dropping the units |
| 5 | Out of 60 students, 40% ride a bus. How many students ride a bus? | 24 | Watch for: missing a step in a two-step problem |
| 6 | Finn answered 75% of 80 questions correctly. How many were correct? | 60 | Check: grabbing the numbers and guessing the operation |
The item “Ruby answered 25% of 80 questions correctly. How many were correct?” is worth doing slowly. The answer to “Ruby answered 25% of 80 questions correctly. How many were correct?” is 20, and the route to it is the route every other problem on this sheet takes — which is why the sheet has 20 of them rather than one.
Work “Omar answered 10% of 50 questions correctly. How many were correct?” out loud as a demonstration. It gives 5. Children who hear “Omar answered 10% of 50 questions correctly. How many were correct?” reasoned through once at the start of a session make noticeably fewer errors in the ten minutes that follow.
Answers appear next to their question numbers, so a wrong item like “Ruby answered 25% of 80 questions correctly. How many were correct?” can be found in the key in a second and re-worked while it is still fresh.
The key prints on its own page by default. Uncheck the answer-key box before printing if you would rather keep it back and mark the sheet yourself.
To save these 6th grade percent word problems worksheets instead of printing them, choose 'Save as PDF' in the printer list. You get the worksheet and the answer key as a single PDF, on Letter or A4 depending on your printer settings.
The sheet is laid out to fit one page on both US Letter and A4. Leave the browser scaling at 100% and turn headers and footers off, and the 20 problems land inside the margins on either paper size.
Keep the finished 6th grade percent word problems worksheets in date order — the drop in time across ten sheets is the clearest progress report you will get.
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Last updated: 2026-09-13