Question

Percents are important to real-world mathematics as they exist in shopping, construction, education, medicine, science, fashion, and so much more! 1. Explain in your own words the difference between 100%, 10%, 1%, and 0.1%. 2. Give a specific example of a percentage you have seen in the real-world. 3. Write a real-world example of a percent problem using 15% in your problem. Solve your problem.

Answer 1

Answer:

1. 100 % of 100 is 100

b.10 % of 100 is 10

c. 1% of 100 is 1

Answer 2

Answer:

The term ‘per cent’ means ‘out of a hundred’. In mathematics, percentages are used like fractions and decimals, as ways to describe parts of a whole. When you are using percentages, the whole is considered to be made up of a hundred equal parts. The symbol % is used to show that a number is a percentage, and less commonly the abbreviation ‘pct’ may be used.