Percentage

Chapter - comparing quantities Explained by - Gopika Arora

Subject - maths Undergraduate, IIT Delhi
Class - 7

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 Topics to be covered
● Meaning of Percentage

● Percentages when total is not hundred

● Converting Fractional Numbers to Percentage 35

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● Converting Decimals to Percentage
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● Convert percentage to fraction

● Estimate the parts of an area.

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Meaning of Percentage
● Per cent is derived from Latin word ‘per centum’ meaning ‘per hundred’.

● Per cent is represented by the symbol % and means hundredths too. That is 1% means
1 out of hundred or one hundredth. It can be written as: 1% =1/100 = 0.01
Colour Number Rate per Fraction Written as Read as
of balls hundred
red 23 23 23/100 23% 23 per cent

blue 47 47 47/100 47% 47 per cent

Green 11 11 11/100 11% 11 per cent

Yellow 19 19 19/100 19% 19 per cent

Total 100
Percentages when total is not hundred
● In such cases, we need to convert the fraction to an equivalent fraction with
denominator 100.
Converting Fractional Numbers to Percentage
● Fractional numbers can have different denominator. To compare fractional numbers,
we need a common denominator and we have seen that it is more convenient to
compare if our denominator is 100. That is, we are converting the fractions to
Percentages.
Convert percentage to fraction/decimal
Percentage 1% 10% 35% 76% 98% 125% 250%

Fraction 1/100 10/100=1 35/100= 76/100=1 98/100= 125/100= 250/100=5/2

/10 7/20 9/25 49/50 5/4

decimal 0.01 0.10 0.35 0.76 0.98 1.25 2.50

Parts always add to give a whole
● This means that if there were 100 students, 30 out of them would be boys and the
remaining would be girls.
● Then girls would obviously be (100 – 30)% = 70%.
Estimate the parts of an area.
● We first find the fraction of the figure that is shaded. From this fraction, the
percentage of the shaded part can be found.

● Here, You will find that half of the figure is shaded. And, 1/2 =1/2 x 100% = 50%
Thus, 50 % of the figure is shaded.
20% of 40% = 20/100 x 40/100 = 8/100 = 8%
90/100 of x = 315
Þ 9x=31500
Þ x=3500
 Thank you

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