Percent Proportions

Monday, December 03, 2012 11:02 AM

Title: Percent Proportion Wiki Tags: williamsp1, percentwiki

Approaching Percents with Proportions

1) Write a proportion you could use to solve the following problem. Be sure to include the units. 16 cookies require 1.5 cups of flour. How many cups of flour would 20 cookies require?

2) Rewrite the proportion with ONLY the units.

3) Explain how the units in a proportion are essential when setting up a proportion.

Units help a lot because if you did not have units you might get the numbers mixed up and accidentally multiply a unit by a unit. For example: You might accidentally do "flour x flour". You always want the same units across from each other.

4) What does percent mean? A percent is a part of a whole and out of 100.

5) Write 30% as a fraction.

6) What is the denominator of any percent written as a fraction?

100
7) Think of percent as part of a whole. What number would represent the whole?
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represent the whole?

100

8) If I have a bowl of apples and 50 out of 120 are red apples, what is the part and what is the whole in this situation?

50 is the part and 120 is the whole.

9) Set up a proportion to figure out what percent of the apples in the previous question are red and solve.

10) Use the units in the previous problem to create a formula for working with percents.

11) Use your formula to answer the following question: 150 out of 720 students at Cary Academy have been in the All About Animals club. What percent of students, rounded to the nearest whole, have been in the All About Animals club?

12) Make up a word problem that can be solved with your formula and apply the formula to your word problem.
At the Pet Shop, they were selling 57 brown puppies. At the Pet Shop they were selling a total of 120 puppies for adoption. What percent of the puppies were brown?

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