Warm-up

Monday, October 26, 2009

Find each product.
a) 0.6 •9 =

3.8 •6.8 =
b)

23 20
• =
c) 60 46

17 5
d) • =
135 34
 Proportions and
Percent Equations
Section 4-3
We will be able to find parts of
wholes and percents or finding
whole amounts
Basic Idea
For tonight’s homework, you will see
problems like these:

1. What percent of 15 is 5?
2. What is 12% of 60?
3. 28 is 14% of what number?

We’ll use key words to solve these problems.

Basic Idea
One very easy phrase to remember to solve
these problems correctly is this: “Percent
over one hundred equals is over of”

It looks like this:

% is
=
100 of
Let’s Try (examples)
Let’s give it a try.

1. What percent of 15 is 5?

% is x 5
= so =
100 of 100 15
Example 2
2. What is 12% of 60?

% is 12 x
= so =
100 of 100 60
Example 3
3. 28 is 14% of what number?

% is 14 28
= so =
100 of 100 x
Note on Language
Sometimes the book uses different language
in its tool. It would use the phrase “percent
over 100 equals part over whole”. It’s the
same thing with different words.

In this phrase “is” becomes “part” and “of”

becomes “whole”.
Summary
From page 317 (321) in your book.
Homework
 Please complete page 200: 1 – 19 all
Ticket to leave
a) What percent of 90 is 27?

b) Find 25% of 480.

c) What covers about 361,736,000 km2, or

about 70.8% of the earth’s surface.
Approximately, what is the total surface
area of the earth?