Percentage calculations
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.
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 number a, we need to …
To calculate a number based on its percentpercent, we need to …
To calculate what percentpercent of the given number b is number a, we need to …
Compare sentences from your poster with following conclusions.
Conclusions:
To calculate p% of the given a number, we need to convert this percentpercent into fractionfraction and multiply it by the number a.
To calculate number a based on its percentpercent, we need to convert percent into fraction and divide the given number a by this fractionfraction.
To calculate what fraction of the given number b is number a, we need to calculate what fractionfraction of number b is number a first. Then, we need to convert obtained fraction into percentpercent.
Open the interactive illustration, that explains the idea of percentpercent points and watch it carefully.
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.
Conclusion:
PercentPercent points is a unit of difference between two values of one quantity expressed in percents.
Do exercises, using any of the methods you know.
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? |
An extra task:
There is a certain two‑digit number in which the digit of tens is smaller than the digit of ones. What is this number?
Remember:
To calculate % of the given number, we need to convert this percentpercent into fractionfraction and multiply it by the number .
% of number isTo calculate number based on its percentpercent, we need to convert percent into fractionfraction and divide the given number by this fraction.
To calculate what fraction of the given number is number , we need to calculate what fractionfraction of number is number first. Then, we need to convert obtained fraction into percentpercent.
PercentPercent points is a unit of difference between two values of one quantity expressed in percents.
Do the revision exercises.
Exercises
A tent cost 320 zł and its price was decreased by 40 zł. How many percent was the decrease?
- 8%
- 25%
- 12,5%
- 80%
30 dag of salt was poured into 250 g of water. Calculate the percentage concentration of this solution.
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.
Indicate which pairs of expressions or words are translated correctly.
- p% danej liczby - p% of the given number
- procent - percent
- punkt procentowy - percent point
- dany procent liczby - given percent of number
- cena końcowa - initial price
- cena początkowa - final price
- percent point
- cena początkowa
- fraction
- cena końcowa
- initial price
- percent
- final price
- procent
- punkt procentowy
- ułamek
Glossary
zamiana ułamka na procenty
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wymowa w języku angielskim: converting fraction into percent
cena końcowa
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wymowa w języku angielskim: final price
ułamek
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wymowa w języku angielskim: fraction
dany procent liczby
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wymowa w języku angielskim: given percent of number
cena początkowa
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wymowa w języku angielskim: initial price
p% danej liczby
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wymowa w języku angielskim: p% of the given number
procent
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wymowa w języku angielskim: percent
punkt procentowy
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Keywords
percent pointpercent point - jednostka różnicy między dwiema wartościami jednej wielkości wyrażonymi w procentach
converting fraction into percentconverting fraction into percent
given percent of numbergiven percent of number
% of the given number% of the given number - % danej liczby , to liczby