Percent Proportion Activity

Monday, December 03, 2012 11:01 AM

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 are important because if you don't use them you might be confused of where to put the numbers and the x. If you don't put the numbers and x in the right place, your whole problem might become wrong.
4) What does percent mean? Percent means out of a hundred 5) Write 30% as a fraction.

6) What is the denominator of any percent written as a fraction? The denominator is 100 7) Think of percent as part of a whole. What number would represent the whole? The whole would be 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.

41 2/3%

10) Use the units in the previous problem to create a formula for working with percents. Percent over 100 equals part over whole 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?

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rounded to the nearest whole, have been in the All About Animals club?

20.56%
12) Make up a word problem that can be solved with your formula and apply the formula to your word problem. Shakira performs at 30 concerts in a month. This month she missed 9 concerts because she was sick. What percent of concerts did she perform at?

X = 70%

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