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Percentages

Use percentages in everyday situations.

21 Lessons273 Exercises

Intro to Percentages

Working out Percentages

Percentages and Batteries

Percentages as Fractions

Percent Increase

Price Increase

Calculating Percent Increase

Percentages as Tenths

Percentages as Hundredths

Finding the Percentage

Percentages as Decimals

Calculating the Percentage

Percent Decrease

Calculating Percent Decrease

Finding the Original Price

Reversing Percentages

Compound Changes

Compound Calculations

Splitting Percent Changes

Growing and Shrinking

Exponential Growth

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Course description

We'll first find percentages of numbers by relating them to common fractions such as fourths, fifths and tenths. We'll work with percentage increase and percentage decrease, and use percentages to calculate the price of items in a sale, the amount of charge left in a battery and the total for a bill after including tips and taxes.


Topics covered

  • Percentages and fractions.
  • Percentages and decimals.
  • Percentage increase.
  • Percentage decrease.
  • Applications of percentages.