The Meaning of

Percent
Problem:

Unit 4 > Lesson

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What fraction of each grid is shaded?

Grid 1

Grid 2

Grid 3

Answer
Answer
Answer
Each grid above has 100 boxes. For each grid, the ratio of the number of shaded boxes to
the total number of boxes can be represented as a fraction.

Comparing Shaded Boxes to Total Boxes

Grid

Ratio

96 to 100

9 to 100

77 to 100

Fraction

We can represent these fractions as percents using the symbol %.

= 96%
Definition:

=
9%
=
77%
A percent is a ratio whose second term is 100. Percent means parts per
hundred. The word comes from the Latin phrase per centum, which means per
hundred. In mathematics, we use the symbol % for percent.

Let's look at our comparison table again. This time the table includes percents.

Comparing Shaded Boxes to Total Boxes

Grid

Ratio

Fraction

Percent

96 to 100

96%

09 to 100

09%

77 to 100

77%

Let's look at some examples in which we are asked to convert between ratios, fractions,
decimals and percents.
Example 1: Write each ratio as a fraction, a decimal, and a percent: 4 to 100, 63 to 100, 17
to 100

Solution
Ratio

Fraction

Decimal

Percent

04 to 100

.04

04%

63 to 100

.63

63%

17 to 100

.17

17%

Example 2: Write each percent as a ratio, a fraction in lowest terms, and a decimal: 24%,
5%, 12.5%

Solution

Example 3:

Percent

Ratio

Fraction

Decimal

24%

24 to 100

.240

05%

05 to 100

.050

12.5%

12.5 to 100

.125

Write each percent as a decimal: 91.2%, 4.9%, 86.75%

Solution
Percent Decimal
91.2%

.9120

04.9%

.0490

86.75%

.8675

A farm layout is the planning out of the farm. The arranging of the farm into different sections to
know where places in the farm are, for example to know where the poultry is located.
Farm Layout: A Farm layout refers to the compiling of physical structures such as
homesteads, outbuildings, waterways, contours, camps, water supply roads and the
layout of orchards, vineyards or lands. However, the area where the farm is
situated, the topography, the availability of natural resources, the farming practices,
the different enterprises, the availability of capital and the preference of the
farmer/owner will also affect the farm layout.
1.

famine is a severe shortage of food, but not

the "I forgot to go to the grocery store and
there's nothing to eat in the house" type of
shortage. Afamine is usually caused by crop
failure or disaster.
Famines have caused widespread suffering in all countries and ages.

drought
(drout) also drouth (drouth)
n.
1. A long period of abnormally low rainfall, especially one that adversely affects growing or living con
ditions.
2. A prolonged dearth or shortage.
After 2 years of drought, the people ran outside to dance and celebrate once it finally began to rain.

Something parched is excessively dry and hot,

in extreme need of water, like a desert, a
neglected plant, or your throat after a fivekilometer run.
1. After being stuck in the desert for two days, I was
parched and in need of water.

To sear something is to quickly cook or

burn its surface by applying intense heat.
When making beef stew, the color and
flavor are usually better if you searthe
meat first.
His look was so direct it seemed to sear through her.

barren
[bar-uh n]
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Synonyms
Examples
Word Origin

adjective
1.
not producing or incapable of producing offspring; sterile:
a barren woman.
2.
unproductive; unfruitful:
barren land.
3.
without capacity to interest or attract:
a barren period in American architecture.
4.
mentally unproductive; dull; stupid.
5.
not producing results; fruitless:
a barren effort.
6.
destitute; bereft; lacking (usually followed by of):
barren of tender feelings.

noun
7.
Usually, barrens. level or slightly rolling land, usually with a sandy soiland few tree
s, and relatively infertile.

1. Looking out the window of the airplane, I realized that

some deserts are actually more barren than others.

breechcloth
[breech-klawth, -kloth]
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Word Origin

noun, plural

breechcloths

[brah-klawth z, -kloth z, -klawths, -kloths] (Show IPA)

1.
a cloth worn about the breech and loins; loincloth.

1.

Usurpation means taking someone's power or property by force. Locking the

teacher outside of the classroom and taking charge of math class is a form
of usurpation.
To the Republicans (Democratic Republicans) they seemed intended to cause
a usurpation of powers ungranted.

1.

The Remonstrances (sometimes written in the original Anglo-Norman:

Monstraunces) were a set of complaints presented by a group of nobles in 1297,
against the government of King Edward I of England.

: a protest or complaint about something

Remonstrance was consequently made by the British government, and its
envoys were supported by a small naval force.
tarry1
[tar-ee]
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Synonyms
Word Origin
verb (used without object), tarried, tarrying.
1.
to remain or stay, as in a place; sojourn:
He tarried in Baltimore on his way to Washington.
2.
to delay or be tardy in acting, starting, coming, etc.; linger or loiter.

3.
to wait.
verb (used with object), tarried, tarrying.
4.
Archaic. to wait for.
noun, plural tarries.
5.
a stay; sojourn.
a traditional story, especially one concerning the early history of a people or explaining
some natural or social phenomenon, and typically involving supernatural beings or
events.
a traditional or legendary story, usually concerning some being or heroor eve
nt, with or without a determinable basis of fact or a naturalexplanation, espe
cially one that is concerned with deities or demigodsand explains some practi
ce, rite, or phenomenon of nature.
He found it laughable that the living invented so many myths to create a
false sense of security regarding the dark predators.