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6-5. Percent Increase and Decrease. Course 3. I am the best at. Wow. Lesson Presentation. Put your name on top of the index card Answer the following question on the index card: I am the best at …. WOW.
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6-5 Percent Increase and Decrease Course 3 I am the best at Wow Lesson Presentation
Put your name on top of the index card Answer the following question on the index card: I am the best at …
WOW 1) Kevin, a real-estate agent, got a commision check for $14,000 dollars. Kevin’s commission is 2½% per each house sold. What was the selling price of the house? 2) Lexus tried out for American Idol. 39 contestants actually made it Hollywood. Simon Cowel told Lexus that only 13% of all the contestants can make it to Hollywood. How many contestants were there? 3) Trezhun makes 37½% of his free throws during a basketball game. Total, he scored 12 points for free throws. How many free throws did he attempt? 4) Alonzo has a special bunny farm. Today, he counts 189 bunnies. He knows that his bunnies reproduce themselves 150% for each month. How many bunnies did he have a month ago?
WOW 1) Kevin, a real-estate agent, got a commision check for $14,000 dollars. Kevin’s commission is 2½% per each house sold. What was the selling price of the house?
WOW 2) Lexus tried out for American Idol. 39 contestants actually made it Hollywood. Simon Cowel told Lexus that only 13% of all the contestants can make it to Hollywood. How many contestants were there?
WOW 3) Trezhun makes 37½% of his free throws during a basketball game. Total, he scored 12 points for free throws. How many free throws did he attempt? 37½ %? That‘s my percentage too.
WOW 4) Alonzo has a special bunny farm. Today, he counts 189 bunnies. He knows that his bunnies reproduce themselves 150% for each month. How many bunnies did he have a month ago?
Vocabulary percent change percent increase percent decrease
amount of change original amount percent change = Vocabulary Percents can be used to describe a change. Percent change is the ratio of the amount of change to the original amount. Percent increase describes how much the original amount increases. Percent decrease describes how much the original amount decreases.
State whether each change represent an increase or decrease • From 16 to 12 6) From 98 to 70 7) From 15 to 20 8) From $1.25 to $0.85
Find each percent increase or decrease to the nearest percent 9) From $1.50 to $0.49 10) From 1625 to 1400 11) From 37 to 125 12. From 11 to 521
Find each percent increase or decrease to the nearest percent 13) Alonzo decided to take a walk with his special bunnies. At the beginning of his walk, he had 189 bunnies with him. Unfortunately, he wasn’t paying too much attention and stepped on a few of them. Alonzo stops and counts his bunnies again. This time he only has 74 bunnies.