Finding The Rate When The Percentage and Base
Finding The Rate When The Percentage and Base
N = 24
24
N = 25%
600 %
N = 25%
a) What facts are given? Use the Techans
Triangle.
b) What will you do to arrive at the
answer?
c) What equation is suited to the problem?
d) What proportion best fits the problem?
24
120= N
100 24:120 = N:100%
120 x N = 24 x 100% 120 x N = 24 x 100%
120N = 2 400% 120N = 2 400%
N= N = 120
2 400%
N = 20% N = 20%
In a class of 50 pupils,
24 are boys. What
percent of the class are
boys? What percent are
girls?
A vendor had 200
balloons for sale. If he
sold 125 of them,
what percent remains
unsold?
Solve the problem.
a) Ricardo got 90% of a 20-item test in Math.
How many items did he answer correctly?
b) In a school of 680 Grade 6 pupils, 646
graduated. What percent of the Grade 6 pupils
graduated? How many did not graduate?
c) One stormy day, 12 pupils of Mrs. Loyola
were absent. If there are 50 pupils in the class,
what percent of the class is absent? present?
Evaluation