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Questions:
What does percent mean?
Describe how you can change a percent to a decimal and to a fraction.
Describe how you can change a fraction to a percent.
Describe how you can change a decimal to a percent.
Why are percents useful in making comparisons?
Explain how to find what percent one number is of another number. For example, what percent of 200 is 75? Draw a percent bar to help explain your thinking.
Percent is out of something
ReplyDeleteMake a benchmark of 50% then change to a decimal them multiply by 100
Make a benchmark of 50%, multiply by 100,move the decimal 2 places to the right
percents are useful for making comparisons because they can be used to make calculating easier when shopping, they help you save money, etc.
4: change the percent into a decimal, multiply the decimal by the number you want the percentage out of then, drop the zeros. :)