Bethune Junior High Math - Miller Your Name (First & Last)

7S1C2P03 Period
Percents, Ratios, Proportion
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Standard: S1C2PO 3. Solve problems involving percentages, ratio and proportion, including tax,
discount, tips, and part/whole relationships.
Objective: Students will be able to analyze real world situation using percents, ratio, and proportion.

Ratio - used to compare two or more quantities

Expressing the ratio of men to women as "2 to 5" is expressing the ratio in words. There are two
other notations for this "5 to 2" ratio:

Odds Notation: 2 : 5

Fractional Notation: 2/5

Write the ratio of women to men below:

Odds Notation:

Fractional Notation:

Examples:
A) In a probability experiment, Andrea had to pick out socks out of a drawer. She picked out red
socks 5 times and blue ones 11 times. What is the ratio of red socks to blue ones in this
experiment?

B) There are 13 oranges and 5 apples. What is the ratio of apples to oranges?

C) Peter is planting trees in his yard. He wants the ratio of pine trees to oak trees to be 5 to 2.
Peter wants to plant a total of 63 trees. How many pine trees should he plant?

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Partner Problem Solving - Ratios

A) In ballet class, there are 21 girls for every 2 boys. Write the ratio of girls to boys in more than
one way.

B) Jaime wants to know how fast she can type, so she times herself as she types a paper. The
paper has 715 words in it, and Jaime types it in 11 minutes. What is her typing rate, in words per
minute?

C) In a probability experiment, Alex flipped a coin 107 times. The coin landed on heads 50 times.
What is the ratio of heads to tails in this experiment?

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Proportion - when you have two ratios set to be equal to each other

Directions: Complete the following proportional tables.

$3.30 per pound of cherries

Ratio =

Dollars 3.30

Pounds 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9

$1.75 for a pound of flowers

Ratio =

Dollars 1.75

Pounds 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9

$14.00 for 4 pounds of grapes

Ratio =

Dollars 14.00

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9
Pounds
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 60 miles per hour

Ratio =

Miles 60

Hour 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9

320 miles in 6 hours

Ratio =

Miles 320

Hour 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9

Partner Work

The Amtrak bus travel 450 miles in 9 hours.

Complete the following table to represent this situation.

How many hours will it take for the bus to go 150 miles? 300 miles?

Ratio =

Miles

Hour
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Partner Problem Solving - Proportions

A) The train travels 150 miles every 6 hours. How many miles will it cover in 5 hours?

B) At the convenience store you can buy 7 pencils for $1.61. How much does it cost to buy
60 pencils?

C) I drive 210 miles every 3
hours. What speed am I traveling in mph? How long will it
take me to drive from Phoenix to San Diego if the distance between the two cities is 380
miles?

D) A radio station had 264 tickets to a concert. They gave away 5 times as many tickets to
listeners as to employees. How many tickets did they give away to employees?

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Percent a ratio whose second term is 100. The word percent comes from the Latin phrase per
centum, which means per hundred. In mathematics, we use the symbol % for percent.

Directions: Shade in the boxes to represent the following percents and then identify the
corresponding decimals and fractions.

100 % Fraction Decimal Ratio

15 % Fraction Decimal Ratio

72 % Fraction Decimal Ratio

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 5.5 % Fraction Decimal Ratio

52.5 % Fraction Decimal Ratio

In the hundreds charts above, how much was each unit (square) worth as a percent?

As a fraction?

As a decimal?

Directions: Shade in the boxes to represent the following percents and then identify the
corresponding decimals and fractions.

10 % Fraction Decimal Ratio

35 % Fraction Decimal Ratio

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 5% Fraction Decimal Ratio

In the tens blocks above, how much was each (unit) square worth as a percent?

As a fraction? As a decimal?

10 % Fraction Decimal Ratio

50 % Fraction Decimal Ratio

80 % Fraction Decimal Ratio

In the charts above, how much was each square worth as a percent?

Let’s develop a rule for finding percents of a certain number!

A) Using what you just found out about 50% of 5, is there a way we could have found the answer
without shading in the squares first?

B) Is there a faster way to find 80% of 5?

C) What about 5% of 10?

D) What is the rule for finding a percent of a number?

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 Our Equation for Finding Percents

Part = Percent
Whole 100

Percent Whole Part

10% of 100 =

10% of 50 =

10% of 20 =

10% of 15 =

10% of 5=

10% of 250 =

Percent Whole Amount

50% of 100 =

1% of 50 =

30% of 20 =

100% of 15 =

20% of 5=

80% of 250 =

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 1) What is 30% of 35? 5) What is 200% of 6?

2) What is 20% of 50? 6) What is 300% of 60?

3) What is 3% of 35? 7) What is 65% of 80?

4) What is 90% of 40? 8) What is 1% of 35?

Partner Problem Solving- Percents

A) 20 of the 25 racers finished the race. What percentage of the racers finished the race?

B) 39 of the pitcher's 150 pitches were hit foul. What percentage of the pitches were foul hits?

C) Maria wants to buy a shirt that costs $16.99. If sales tax is 7%, what will be the total cost of the
shirt?

D) A basketball originally cost $27.50. Randy bought it last week at 20% off. How much was
deducted from the original price?

E) Genesis bought a purse on sale for 35% off the original price. If the purse originally cost $110,
how much money did Genesis save when she bought the purse?

F) The meal was $26.48 including tax. If Evelyn added 15% tip, how much was the bill including
tip?

G) Deana purchased diamond earrings during the Jewelry Emporium's Semi-Annual Clearance
Sale. If Deana paid $136.50 for the earrings and the original price is $210.00, how much of a
discount did she receive?

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