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Using Proportion to Find the percent of a Number
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Finding the percent of a
number
Examples: What is 15% of 40? or
what is 35% of 120?
Finding the percent
Example: What percent of 45 is 8?
Finding percent of the whole
Example: What number is 30%
of 100%
Finding the percent of a
number
Examples: What is 15% of 40? or
what is 35% of 120?
Finding the percent
Example: What percent of 45 is 8?
Finding percent of the whole
Example: What number is 30%
of 100%
Example: What percent of 20 is 7?
The set should look like the picture below
The set should look like the picture below
Note: The whole is also call the base
7 appears with the word is, it's the PART so it goes at
the top
20 appears with the word of so it goes at the bottom
the top
20 appears with the word of so it goes at the bottom
Find the cross product of the proportion
Missing percent = 100 x 7 divided by 20.
100 x 7 = 700
700 d 20 = 35
700 d 20 = 35
7 is 35% of 20
