Learning Targets Express fractions in decimal and percent forms, and vice versa Solve problems involving fractions, decimals, and percents
Review: Raquel, a working scholar, assists in the school library . She works hours a day, 5 days a week. What is the total number of hours she assist in the library? If she given an allowance of P40 for every hour, how much is her weekly allowance? Charity wants to buy her daughter a pair of shoes for P1550.25, a blouse worth P630.50, a bag for P1,400.75, and a jacket for P1230.25. When she checked her wallet, she found out that she has two 1,000 – peso bills, five 500 – peso bills, and four 100 – peso bills. Does she have enough money to buy all items ? What will happen if she will give all her money to the cashier.
Percent People would often use the words percent and percentage interchangeably. How ever, these two words are not synonymous. The use of word percent or the symbol should be accompanied by a specific number. A percent refers to parts per hundred, whereas percentage is the result obtained by multiplying a number by a percent.
A value or quantity can be expressed as fraction, a decimal, or a percent. Thus it is important that you know how to convert a fraction into decimal and percent forms, and vice versa
Converting Fraction to Percent Accordingly , we know that a fraction can be expressed as decimal or percent vice-versa. To change a fraction to decimal , simply divide the numerator by the denominator. The resulting decimal can be changed to percent by multiplying it by 100 and annexing the percent sign.
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Converting Decimals to Fraction and Percent Forms To express terminating decimals as fractions, do the following: Write the decimal over denominator of 1. Multiply the numerator and denominator by a power of 10 that corresponds to the number of places to the right of the decimal point. Simplify if needed
Express each decimal as fraction 0.25 1.5
Converting Percent to Fraction To change percent to fraction, we simply drop the percent sign and divide the given number by 100. There are also instances when we change percent to decimal first before changing decimal to fraction.
Write 30% in fraction and decimal Express 120% as fraction and decimal Express 0.5% as fraction and decimal
Percentage, Rate and Base To explain the cases that arise in problems involving percent, it is necessary to define the terms that will be used. Rate (r) is the number of hundredths parts taken. This is the number followed by the percent sign. The base (b) is the whole on which the rate operates. Percentage (p) is the part of the base determined by the rate.
Percentage, Rate and Base
Example: what is % of P450? 60% of 150 is what number?
Faye is planning to buy a new car through an auto loan financing scheme. To avail of a lower monthly amortization, she must pay 30% of the purchase price of P648 000. 00 as down payment. How much should she save for the down payment of her car?
Mercy works part time as real estate agent and receives a commission rate of 5%. If she was able to sell a town house unit worth P 1 865 900, how much is her commission?
Finding the base 20% of what number is 12? 225 is 90% of what number?
If the computed tax on excess of 140 000 taxable income at 25% is 15 000, how much was the amount in excess of 140 000 that was subjected to tax of 25%?
Bad debts are estimated at 2 % of the accounts receivable . If the bad debts expense to be charged is 1 480, how much was the company’s accounts receivable?
A car dealer offers a low down payment of 97 200 for a new car with free insurance and free car registration. If the down payment is 15% of the purchase price of the car, how much is the purchase price of the new car?
Finding the base What percent of 60 is 40? 120 is what percent of 150?
The marked price of an item was 790. The store offered 200 off on item. What was the rate of the discount?
Records show that in the first four months of this year, car sales increased to 84 141 units from 69 737 units in the comparable year of 2014. how many percent was the increase in sales?
For the Father’s Day promo your store is giving 250 off for a minimum purchase of 2 000. How much is the discount rate given by your store?
If the total amount due on your electric bill is 1 869. 17 and 941.71 of this amount corresponds to the generation charge, how many percent of your electric bill is attributed to generation charge?