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Percentage calculations

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Obliczenia procentowe

Learning objectives

  • You will learn to do percentage calculations and apply them to do text exercises.

Learning effect

  • You do percentage calculations and apply them to do text exercises.

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Revise ways of doing tasks with percents.

Prepare a poster with sentences that start with phrases.

  • To calculate p% of the given numberp% of the given numberp% of the given number a, we need to …

  • To calculate a number based on its percentpercentpercent, we need to …

  • To calculate what percentpercentpercent of the given number b is number a, we need to …

Compare sentences from your poster with following conclusions.

Conclusions:

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  • To calculate p% of the given a number, we need to convert this percentpercentpercent into fractionfractionfraction and multiply it by the number a.

  • To calculate number a based on its percentpercentpercent, we need to convert percent into fraction and divide the given number a by this fractionfractionfraction.

  • To calculate what fraction of the given number b is number a, we need to calculate what fractionfractionfraction of number b is number a first. Then, we need to convert obtained fraction into percentpercentpercent.

Task 1
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Open the interactive illustration, that explains the idea of percentpercentpercent points and watch it carefully.

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In elections for the president of the fishing club there were two candidates. 100 people voted and results are presented in posters.

Analyse information presented in the illustration. Write down conclusions.

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Ilustracja interaktywna przedstawia tablicę korkową, na której zawieszone są plakaty ze zdjęciami dwóch mężczyzn - Filip Rybiński i Jan Węgorzewski. Nad zdjęciem Rybińskiego napis 40% of votes, nad zdjęciem Węgorzewskiego 60% of votes. Pod zdjęciem Rybińskiego napis 40 people from 100 voting, pod zdjęciem Węgorzewskiego napis 60 people from 100 voting. Na ilustracji widoczne są numery, a na nich podpisy. 1. Mr Węgorzewski got 20 percent points more than Sir Rybiński. The difference between the result 60% and the result 40% is 20 percent points – 20 p.p. {audio}, 2. Mr Węgorzewski got 50% more votes than Sir Rybiński. 60 people – 40 people = 20 people. 20/40 = 1/2 = 50% {audio}.
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Conclusion:

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  • PercentpercentPercent points is a unit of difference between two values of one quantity expressed in percents.

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Do exercises, using any of the methods you know.

Task 2
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Write solutions of exercises and answers to them. The number obtain as a result indicates number of the next task to do.

Number of the task

Exercise to do

50

In 32‑people class 25% of students play basketball and 50% - football. How many more percent point of students play football rather than basketball?

25

An art‑tools sets for kid costs 48,50 PLN. How much willi t cost after 15% discount?

41,30

There were 200 people at a tent field. After the first week, 15% of people left, and in the next one 20% of those who stayed also left. How many people stayed at the tent field if no one new came at this time?

136

In 32‑people class, 25% of students play basketball and 50% - football. How many more percent more students play football than basketball?

32

A bike cost 1500 PLN. Its price was raised twice: first by 10% and then by 6%. How much does it cost now?

1749

A group went for a trip to Venice. Men were 36% of all participants and women 42%. Apart from them, there were 11 kids of the trip. How many participants were there?

Task 3

An extra task:

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There is a certain two‑digit number in which the digit of tens is 3313% smaller than the digit of ones. What is this number?

Remember:

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  • To calculate p% of the given a number, we need to convert this percentpercentpercent into fractionfractionfraction and multiply it by the number a.

    p% of number a is P100a
  • To calculate number a based on its percentpercentpercent, we need to convert percent into fractionfractionfraction and divide the given number a by this fraction.

  • To calculate what fraction of the given number b is number a, we need to calculate what fractionfractionfraction of number b is number a first. Then, we need to convert obtained fraction into percentpercentpercent.

  • PercentpercentPercent points is a unit of difference between two values of one quantity expressed in percents.

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Do the revision exercises.

Exercises

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Exercise 1
Wersja alternatywna ćwiczenia: A tent cost 320 zł and its price was decreased by 40 zł. How many percent was the decrease? Możliwe odpowiedzi: 1. 8%, 2. 25%, 3. 12,5%, 4. 80%
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Source: GroMar, licencja: CC BY 3.0.
Exercise 2

30 dag of salt was poured into 250 g of water. Calculate the percentage concentration of this solution.

Exercise 3

See the system of evaluation of a certain school.

Grade from the test

Percent of points obtained on the test

excellent

100%

very good

from 91% to 99%

good

from 75% to 90%

satisfactory

from 60% to 74%

poor

from 42% to 59%

unsatisfactory

from 0% to 41%

It was possible to obtain 50 points at the last maths test. Kasia got 25 points, Maciek 46 points and Tomek 15 points. What grades did they get?

Write the answer and solution in English.

Exercise 4
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Wersja alternatywna ćwiczenia: Indicate which pairs of expressions or words are translated correctly. Możliwe odpowiedzi: 1. p% danej liczby - p% of the given number, 2. procent - percent, 3. punkt procentowy - percent point, 4. dany procent liczby - given percent of number, 5. cena końcowa - initial price, 6. cena początkowa - final price
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Source: GroMar, licencja: CC BY 3.0.
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Interaktywna gra, polegająca na łączeniu wyrazów w pary w ciągu jednej minuty. Czas zaczyna upływać wraz z rozpoczęciem gry. Jeden ruch to odkrywanie najpierw jednej potem drugiej karty z wyrazem. Każdy wyraz jest odczytywany. Kolejny ruch to odkrywanie trzeciej i czwartej karty. W ten sposób odsłuchasz wszystkie wyrazy. Nawigacja z poziomu klawiatury za pomocą strzałek, odsłuchiwanie wyrazów enterem lub spacją. Znajdź wszystkie pary wyrazów.
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Glossary

converting fraction into percent
converting fraction into percent

zamiana ułamka na procenty

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wymowa w języku angielskim: converting fraction into percent
final price
final price

cena końcowa

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wymowa w języku angielskim: final price
fraction
fraction

ułamek

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wymowa w języku angielskim: fraction
given percent of number
given percent of number

dany procent liczby

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wymowa w języku angielskim: given percent of number
initial price
initial price

cena początkowa

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wymowa w języku angielskim: initial price
p% of the given number
p% of the given number

p% danej liczby

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wymowa w języku angielskim: p% of the given number
percent
percent

procent

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wymowa w języku angielskim: percent
percent point
percent point

punkt procentowy

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wymowa w języku angielskim: percent point

Keywords

percent pointpercent pointpercent point - jednostka różnicy między dwiema wartościami jednej wielkości wyrażonymi w procentach

converting fraction into percentconverting fraction into percentconverting fraction into percent

given percent of numbergiven percent of numbergiven percent of number

p% of the given numberp% of the given numberp% of the given number - p% danej liczby a, to P100 liczby a