Subject: Mathematics

Topic: Percentage and its

Applications
Grade: VIII

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 Learning Outcomes

After completing the session you will able to

• find the percentage of a quantity

• express one quantity as a percentage of another

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 In a packet of 50 chocolates, 25 are Cadbury, 15 are Perk and the remaining are
Kit-Kat.’

25
How will you represent the number of Cadbury’s in the fractional form?
50

How will you find the percentage of Cadbury chocolates out of 50?

 25 
 ×100  % = 50%
 50 

How will you find the percentage of Perk chocolates out of 50?

 15 
 ×100 % = 30%
 50 

Here, we are finding the percentage of a quantity.

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 Percentage of a quantity

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 To express one quantity as a percentage of the other

 One quantity 
Percentage % =  × 100  %
 Otherquantity 

Q1. What % is 920 g of 4 kg 600 g?

We will first convert 4 kg 600 g into grams
4 kg 600 g = 4600 g
On substituting the values in the formula we get
 one quantity 
Required percentage   ×100  %
 other quantity 

 920 
= ×100  % 
 4600 

= 20%

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