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Approaching Percents with Proportions 1) Write a proportion you could use to solve the following problem. Be sure to include the units. 16 cookies require 1.5 cups of flour. How many cups of flour would 20 cookies require?

2) Rewrite the proportion with ONLY the units. (Don't use numbers, use words).

3) Explain how the units in a proportion are essential when setting up a proportion. You don't want to get them mixed up and multiply flour by flour, the proportion might be confusing without the units. 4) What does percent mean?

A part of a 100.
5) Write 30% as a fraction.

30/100=3/10.
6) What is the denominator of any percent written as a fraction?

100
7) Think of percent as part of a whole. What number would represent the whole?

100
8) If I have a bowl of apples and 50 out of 120 are red apples, what is the part and what is the whole in this situation?

50 is the part and 120 is the whole.

9) Set up a proportion to figure out what percent of the apples in the previous question are red and solve.

10) Use the units in the previous problem to create a formula for working with percents.

11) Use your formula to answer the following question: 150 out of 720 students at Cary Academy have been in the All About Animals club. What percent of students, rounded to the nearest whole, have been in the All About Animals club?

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12) Make up a word problem that can be solved with your formula and apply the formula to your word problem. In Doodle Jump, Ed dies 47 times. 13 of these times he dies from getting killed by a monster. What percent does he die from a monster?

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