8.10 Fractions and Percents to find a Whole Number

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8.10 Fractions and Percents to find a Whole Number

• SRB 75, 52 and 53

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Unit Fractions

• Fractions with a numerator of 1 are called Unit
  Fractions.
• ½ or ¼ or 1/10 or 1/1000
• Unit fractions help solve fraction problems in
  real life.

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Examples

• Alicia baked cookies. She gave away 24 cookies
  which was 3/5 of her cookies. How many did
  Alicia bake?

8
8
8
8
8
5/5 40. 40 Cookies were baked
3/5 24 1/5 8
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Examples

• A radio is on sale for 120.00 this is 60 off
  of the list price. What was the original price
  of the radio.
• 60 60/100 6/10 3/5

40
40
40
40
40
5/5 200. 200 was the original price of the
radio.
3/5 120 1/5 40