the Blue Team.

Republic of the Philippines

Department of Education Finally, there are
Region III – Central Luzon 7 students who
SCHOOLS DIVISION OF CITY OF BALANGA
BATAAN NATIONAL HIGH SCHOOL – SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL
support the Read
City of Balanga, Bataan Team.

Week 2: Solving Problems Involving Fractions, Decimal and Percent

Example 1:

1 1
Mrs. De Mesa bought 6 kg of meat. She used 2 kg for
3 4
1
afritada, 2 kg for menudo and the rest for adobo. How many
8
kilograms of meat did she used for adobo?

Solution:

First, add the kilograms of meat used for afritada and menudo.
We have
1 1 2 1 3
2 +2 =2 +2 =4 . Example 3
4 8 8 8 8
1 Joel helps his mother in the market after in classes. If he works
Then subtract it from 6 to get the kilograms of meat used
3 for a total of 12.25 hours in the market for 5 days, what is the
for adobo. We have average number of his working hours in a day?
1 3 8 9 8+24 9 8+24−9
6 –4 =6 –4 =5 -4 =1 =
3 8 24 24 24 24 24 Solution:
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1 12.25 ÷ 5 = 2.45 (using long division)
24 Therefore, Joel works an average of 2.45 hours a day in the
23 market.
Therefore, Mrs. De Mesa used 1 kg of meat for adobo.
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Example 4
Example 2
Jose runs on some mornings before he goes to work. Below is
There are 56 students in a class. Three-fourths of the students a table of the number of kilometers he ran during the week.
support Green Team, ½ of the remaining support the Blue
Team and the res support the Red Team. How many students Monday Tuesday Thursday Saturday
support each team? Number 1.5 2.471 4.95 0.73
of KM
Solution:
His goal for the week is to cover 10 kilometers. Did Jose meet
First, find the number of student supporting the Green Team, his running goal for the week? How many kilometers does
we have Jose need to meet his running goal?
3 168
56 × = = 42. Solution: 1.5 + 2.471 + 4.95 + 0.73 = 9.651
4 4
Thus, 10 – 9.651 = 0.349.
Thus 42 students support the Green Team.
Jose needs to run 0.349 kilometer to meet his running goal.
To find the number of students supporting the Blue Team, we
have to subtract first the number of students supporting Green
Team from the total number of students. We have 56 – 42 =
Example 5
14.
Of the 500 runners who attended the FUNRUN, 120 finished
This is the number of students who do not support the Blue
the 5-kilometer run. What percent of the runners finished the
team. So, 14 × ½ = 7. Thus there are 7 students who support
run?
Solution:

120 120÷ 20 6
120 of 500 = = = = 0.24 = 24% finished
500 500÷ 20 25
the 5-kilometer run.