Defines and Identifies

Percentage, Rate and

Base
Read the situation:
In the class of Ms. May, she divided her
student into 8 groups. She presented
different kinds of fruits and asked each
group to choose their favorite fruit.
Among the fruits presented, 2 groups
chose papaya as their favorite fruit.
To solve this problem, you should know
the three important elements:
Rate
Base
Percentage
In the class of Ms. May, she
divided her student into 8 Let us give the ratio of the
groups. She presented number of groups who
different kinds of fruits and chose papaya to the total
asked each group to choose number of groups.
their favorite fruit. Among the
fruits presented, 2 groups
chose papaya as their favorite
2 : 8 or
fruit.
Convert 2/8 in to
decimal
We can write 25% of 8 is 2

25% of 8 is 2
Rate
Base
Percentage
The Relationship among the Three
Elements:

P=RxB P
R B
25% of 8 is 2
25% is the Rate or Percent. It is
given as percent or it is the
number followed by a % sign in
Rate the given problem. It can be
expressed as ratio 25:100 or
25/100.
 25% of 8 is 2
8 is called the Base. It
is the whole or the
total number of which
you take the Percent.
Base
 25% of 8 is 2
2 is called the percentage,
meaning a part of the
whole. It is the resulting Percentage
fractional part of the base.