How Do You Use a Proportion to Find What Percent a Part is of a Whole?

How Do You Use a Proportion to Find What Percent a Part is of a Whole?

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A part is some percent of a whole. Trying to calculate the percent? Use a percent proportion to solve! This tutorial will show you how!

Keywords:

  • problem
  • percent
  • percent proportion
  • solve for percent
  • percent of a number
  • cross multiply
  • what percent

Background Tutorials

  • Solving Multiplication and Division Equations

  • Introducing Percents

      • 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!

  • Solving Proportions

Further Exploration

  • Using Percents

      • How Do You Solve a Word Problem Using a Percent Proportion?How Do You Solve a Word Problem Using a Percent Proportion?

      How Do You Solve a Word Problem Using a Percent Proportion?

      Word problems allow you to see the real world uses of math! This tutorial shows you how to take a words problem and turn it into a percent proportion. Then see how to solve for the answer using the mean extremes property of proportions. Take a look!