How Do You Use a Proportion to Find a Whole?

How Do You Use a Proportion to Find a Whole?

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Taking a percent of a number? Trying to figure out the result? Use a percent proportion to solve! This tutorial will show you how!

Keywords:

  • percent proportion
  • whole
  • number
  • percent
  • part
  • proportion
  • solve
  • solve whole
  • known part
  • known percent

Background Tutorials

  • Find a percent of a quantity as a rate per 100 (e.g., 30% of a quantity means 30/100 times the quantity); solve problems involving finding the whole, given a part and the percent.

      • What's a Percent?What's a Percent?

      What's a Percent?

      Sales tax, tips at restaurants, grades on tests... no matter what you do, you can't run away from percents. So watch this tutorial and see once and for all what percents are all about!

      • What's a Percent Proportion?What's a Percent Proportion?

      What's a Percent Proportion?

      Percents are important, and the reality is that percents are actually proportions in disguise. In this tutorial you'll see exactly how to connect percents with proportions, and you'll be happier for it :)

  • Evaluate expressions at specific values of their variables. Include expressions that arise from formulas used in real-world problems. Perform arithmetic operations, including those involving whole-number exponents, in the conventional order when there are no parentheses to specify a particular order (Order of Operations).

      • What is a Variable?What is a Variable?

      What is a Variable?

      You can't do algebra without working with variables, but variables can be confusing. If you've ever wondered what variables are, then this tutorial is for you!

  • Use proportional relationships to solve multistep ratio and percent problems.

  • Give examples of linear equations in one variable with one solution, infinitely many solutions, or no solutions. Show which of these possibilities is the case by successively transforming the given equation into simpler forms, until an equivalent equation of the form x = a, a = a, or a = b results (where a and b are different numbers).

Further Exploration