How Do You Figure Out the Volume of a Solution Using Percents?

How Do You Figure Out the Volume of a Solution Using Percents?

Note:

Word problems are a great way to see math in action! See how to create a table from the information in a word problem. Then use that table to write an equation and solve to find the answer.

Keywords:

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  • percent
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  • equation
  • variable on both sides
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  • decimals
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  • distributive property
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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.

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  • 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).

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  • 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

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

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