The Percent Equation

PERCENT EQUATION

Solving problems that include percentages

​Part = (Percent)(whole)

Advantage: easy to use with SHORT sentence problems

Drawback: have to convert between percent and decimals

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​Advantages and Drawbacks of the percent equation

​Is means equal

​Key words

​Of means multiply

​56

​Now solve the one step equation

​56 is what percent of 95

​=

​x

​*

​95

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0.35

​Now solve the equation

35% of 6 is what number

​=

​x

​*

6

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​18

​Now solve the one step equation

​18 is 25% of what number

​=

​x

​*

0.25

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