2.

5 Ratios as Percents
GOAL
Solve problems that involve conversions between percents, fractions, and decimals.

Learn about the Math

Tynessa and Chang know that the ratio of male
snowboarders to all snowboarders in Canada is
3 :4. They want to express this relationship using
a percent.

? How do you rename a ratio as a

percent?

A. Does the snowboarding ratio, 3 :4, compare

a part to a whole or a part to another part?
Explain.
B. Write a proportion that relates the ratio 3 :4
to an equivalent ratio out of 100.
C. Solve the proportion to find the percent that
is equivalent to 3 :4.
D. What fraction represents the part of all
snowboarders that is male?
E. What decimal represents the part of all
snowboarders that is male?

Reflecting
1. How is relating a ratio to a percent the same as solving a proportion? Communication Tip
2. Why can you write the ratio of male snowboarders to all When you write
3 percent, think of “per
snowboarders as the fraction ?
4 hundred.”
3. How do you calculate the percent that corresponds to a given
fraction? % 100
4. How do you calculate the percent that corresponds to a given A percent is used to
decimal for tenths or hundredths? compare a part to a
whole; for example,
27% is a way of
writing the ratio 27.
100

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Work with the Math

Example 1: Calculating a percent

A group of 20 Grade 7 students were surveyed
Type of music Number of students
about their favourite types of music. This table
shows the results of the survey. What percent country 1
of students do not prefer rap? rock 4
hip-hop 6
rap 9
Bonnie’s Solution: Using a grid

First I drew a grid of 20 squares, since 20 students

were surveyed. I shaded 11 squares for the people
who prefer country, rock, and hip-hop music.
Then I drew a grid of 100 squares. I figured out that
5 groups of 20 fits in my second grid. Each group of
20 has 11 squares shaded. I counted all the shaded
squares and got 55.
55
  55%, so this is the percent of students
100
who do not prefer rap music.
Miguel’s Solution: Using a proportion

11 ■ I added up the number of students who do not prefer rap and

  
20 100 wrote the ratio of this number to the total number surveyed.
I know that a percent is a ratio out of 100, so I wrote a proportion.
11
5 ■ I know that 20
5  100, so 11
5  ■ is the number I’m
  
20
5 100 looking for. 11
5  55
55 So, 55% of the students surveyed do not prefer rap music.
 
100

Example 2: Renaming a ratio

Express the red part as a ratio, a percent, a decimal, and a fraction.

Fawn’s Solution

3:5  ■ :100 I can see that 3 out of 5 squares are red.

20 I know that a percent is always out of 100, so I wrote a proportion
using the ratio 3 :5 and the ratio out of 100.
3:5  ■ :100
The scale factor that relates the two ratios is 20 because 5
20  100.
3:5  60 :100 The red squares represent 60% of the whole shape.
60 6 3
Also, 60%  , which is 0.60 or 0.6, and   .

20 100 10 5

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 10. Write each fraction as a percent.
Checking
32 6
5. What percent of each figure is shaded? a)  d) 
100 10
a) b) 48 2
b)  e) 
50 5
16 1
c)  f) 
25 4
11. The average rainfall for a region is 25 cm.
6. Suki is a goalie for her hockey team. During If 15 cm of rain has fallen, what percent of
the last game, she made 36 saves out of 40 the average rainfall has fallen?
shots. Write this ratio as a percent.
12. a) Write each percent as a decimal.
7. Copy the table. Determine the missing
b) Write each percent as a ratio.
equivalent fraction, ratio, decimal, or percent
in each row. i) 15% iii) 76% v) 98%
ii) 32% iv) 7% vi) 80%
Fraction Ratio Decimal Percent
1 13. Arrange in order from greatest to least.
a)  5 :10 0.5
2 a) 74%, 32%, 45%, 66%
b) 2 :5 40%
21 b) 45%, 0.13, 0.68, 36%
c) 
100 2 3
d) 0.3 c) , 22%, , 0.58, 79%, 0.06
8 4
e) 25%
12 36
d) , 62%, , 0.28, 97%, 0.46
48 60
Practising 14. Sales tax is an extra amount charged on an
8. Look at the figures in question 5. item, and it is expressed as a percent. Sales
a) What percent of each figure is not tax differs in the provinces. Suppose that
shaded? you are buying a $1 item. How much sales
b) Write each percent in part (a) as a tax would you pay in each province?
decimal. a) Ontario, with a sales tax of 8%
b) Manitoba, with a sales tax of 7%
9. Complete each calculation.
c) Saskatchewan, with a sales tax of 6%
7 ■
a)    or ■%
20 100
15. Andrew, Mohammed, Ian, and Tyrone
23 ■
b)    or ■% 23 38 27 34
receive marks of , , , and ,
50 100 25 40 30 50
19 ■ respectively. Express their marks as
c)    or ■% percents. Then arrange their marks in
25 100
4 ■ order from greatest to least.
d)    or ■%
5 100
3 ■
e)    or ■%
4 100
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16. Milk is classified according to its fat content.
One type of milk has a fat content ratio of 1
part to 50 parts. Express this ratio as a percent.
17. Lindsay won 85% of her tennis matches.
What is her ratio of losses to wins?
18. A basketball team won 48 out of the 80
games they played over the season.
a) What percent of the games did they win?
b) If they lost 30% of their games, what
percent of the games did they tie?
Extending
21. a) When  is written as a percent such as
19. A movie poster was selling for $5.00. Its
price was increased to $7.00. By what
percent was its price increased?
20. Canada’s highest mountain is Mt. Logan
in the Yukon Territory. The world’s
highest mountain is Mt. Everest in
Nepal. Mt. Logan is 5951 m high
and Mt. Everest is 8848 m high.
a) What is the ratio of the height of
Mt. Logan to the height of Mt. Everest?
b) Determine the decimal equivalent of
this ratio. Round your decimal to the
nearest hundredth.
c) What percent of the height of
Mt. Everest is the height of Mt. Logan?
1
3
■%, why is ■ not a whole number?
b) Name a different ratio for a part to a
whole that is not equivalent to a whole
number percent. Explain how you know.

MULTIPLYING BY TENTHS
AND HUNDREDTHS
Look at the number patterns.
34
100  3400 34
200  6800
34
10  340 34
20  680
34
1  34 34
2  68
34
0.1  3.4 34
0.2  6.8
34
0.01  0.34 34
0.02  0.68
1. How can you use mental math to multiply a whole number by 0.1? by 0.2?

2. How can you use mental math to multiply a whole number by 0.01? by 0.02?

3. To calculate each product using mental math, multiply the whole number
by 0.1 or 0.01 first.
a) 0.2
16 d) 0.3
15 g) 0.03
120
b) 0.7
300 e) 0.2
7500 h) 0.04
240
c) 0.4
25 f) 0.04
21 i) 0.02
408

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