Showing posts with label percents. Show all posts
Showing posts with label percents. Show all posts

Wednesday, January 9, 2008

IS/OF

Its hard to do fractions with this website. But, remember that

IS/OF = %/100

So, to find 10% of 300

x/300 = 10/100

Cross multiply and get 3000 = 100x

Divide both sides by 100, to get 30 as your answer.

Homework tonight is page 285, numbers 10-21. Solve them using the equation.

Monday, January 7, 2008

Percent word problems

Percent word problems were solved today. If you need help:

"IS" divided by "OF" then, times 100 = percent


What percent of 10 is 5?

"5" divided by "10" x 100 = 50%