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Example Question #3 : Use Proportional Relationships To Solve Multistep Ratio And Percent Problems: Ccss.Math.Content.7.Rp.A.3
420 is 150% of what number?
Set up the proportion statement and solve for by cross-multiplying:
Example Question #1 : How To Find The Whole From The Part With Percentage
70 is of what number?
Set up the proportion statement and solve for by cross-multiplying:
Example Question #2 : How To Find The Whole From The Part With Percentage
24 is 25% of what number?
Think is
of
.
So:
and
.
We have:
Example Question #31 : Percentages
Write 132% as a fraction in simplest form.
Write as a fraction over 100, and simplify:
Example Question #32 : Percentages
Write as a percent.
%
%
%
%
%
%
Multiply by 100, and simplify:
The correct choice is 96%.
Example Question #4 : How To Find Percentage
What percentage of is
?
To find the percentage, first write the values as a fraction, then convert the fraction's denominator to . We can write the given values as
, which can be converted to
by multiplying both the numerator and denominator by
.
is equivalent to
.
Example Question #33 : Percentages
What is 250% of 750?
Taking 250% of a number is the same as multiplying that number by 2.5. We therefore take the product:
Example Question #34 : Percentages
What is 30% of 150?
One way to go about solving this problem is to convert the percent into a decimal and multiply your whole number by that in order to get your answer. When converting a percent into a decimal, move the decimal point two spaces to the left:
30% = 0.30
Then, multiply this number times 150:
Your answer is .
Example Question #35 : Percentages
If is
of
, what is
of
?
We can solve for with the algebraic equation:
We can then calculate of
:
Example Question #561 : Concepts
What is of
?
We can convert to
or
. We can then calculate
.
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