Monday, December 18, 2006

Percent CHALLENGE!


Consider the following problem. Post your answer as a comment and explain how you got the answer.
On Monday, Euler's Bakery discounted the price of pies 20%. On Tuesday, it discounted the pies an additional 70%. What is the combined percent discount?

Wednesday, December 13, 2006

More on Decimals, Percents, and Fractions

Today's class was about the title. Percent to Decimals, Decimals to Percent, and Percent to Fractions. The way you put a Percent into a decimal is divide the percentage into 100 and you will have your decimal form.

Here is an example of Percent to Decimals:--------------->
In the diagram you have to divide the percentage by 100 as you see in the diagram and once you finished then you will have the decimal form.


Here is an example of Deciamals to Percent:--------------->
In the diagram you have to move the decimal place to spots to the right so you have a whole number and then you have your number out of 100 your percent%.

Here is an example of Percent to Fractions:---------------->