Activity

Monday, December 03, 2012 9:17 AM

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?
1.5coff =& *6=30 X=30 16 cookies 20 cookies If T6 16

X=138 cups of flour

2) Rewrite the proportion with ONLY the units.

3) Explain how the units in a proportion are essential when setting up a proportion. It is important to have units to show what each number is, and they also need to have the same units across from each other. 4) What does percent mean? A percent is a number out of 100. 5) Write 30% as a fraction. 30/100 = 3/10

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? 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.
50 red apples = X%arered 1200 cups of found cups of flour cookies cookies

120 apples 100% 120=508 x = 4123%

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?
150 students = X}, of students 720,

7-200=15000 720 x = 21% 720 total students 100%

12) Make up a word problem that can be solved with your formula and apply the formula to your word problem.

24 out of 60 fish die of fish heart attacks from a cat. The others die from dog breath. What percent die from dog breath?
368=5 two Soot 328.

X= 60%