Goal: Review proportions and percent problems

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12-15-05

• Goal Review proportions and percent problems

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Warm-UP

• Candy Canes cost 2.16 for a box of 12. Write
  and solve a proportion to find the average rate.
• While visiting Italy you want to exchange 300 US
  dollars for liras. The rate of currency exchange
  is 1850 liras per US dollar. Write and solve a
  proportion to find the number of liras you will
  receive.
• If 36 of a group of students like country music,
  write and solve a proportion to predict how many
  would like country music out of 900 students.
• What number is 45 of 60?
• 104 is 26 of what number?
• 7.

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Percent Equations

• Translate
• to decimal
• OF means to multiply
• IS means