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Percents
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By Robert C. Gonzalez
CE Instructor, San Antonio College
Background

\ue000Percent means \u201cper hundred\u201d
\ue00050% = .50 = \u00bd
\ue000A percentage problem has 3 parts:

1.
%
2.
Part
3.
Whole
Parts of a percent
%= part/whole
% = the \u201cpart\u201d over the \u201cwhole\u201d
50% = 5 out of 10 students have a pet.

\u20225 is number of students (part of the class)
\u202210 is the amount of students in thewhole class.
\u202250% means half the students have pets.

\u2022
Remember 50% = .5 = 1/2
of 00

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