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7.3 Goal: Solve percent problems using proportions. Essential Question: How do you write a percent as a fraction?

7.3 Goal: Solve percent problems using proportions. Essential Question: How do you write a percent as a fraction?. Solving Percent Problems. To represent “ a is p percent of b ,” use the proportion a = p b 100 where a is part of the base b and p is the percent. Example 1.

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7.3 Goal: Solve percent problems using proportions. Essential Question: How do you write a percent as a fraction?

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  1. 7.3 Goal: Solve percent problems using proportions.Essential Question:How do you write a percent as a fraction?

  2. Solving Percent Problems To represent “a is p percent of b,” use the proportion a= p b 100 where a is part of the base b and p is the percent.

  3. Example 1 Of 80 dogs in an animal shelter, 15 were adopted this week. What percent of the dogs were adopted?

  4. Example 2 The population of a city this year is 102% of last year’s population, which was 125,000. What is this year’s population?

  5. Example 3 15 is 3% of what number?

  6. Daily Puzzler What is 50% of 50%?

  7. Homework Pg. 329 – 330 # 8 – 42 even

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