Warm-up

Wednesday, October 28, 2009

Write an equation and solve each problem.
1.What is 20% of 20?

2.8 is what percent of 20?

3.18 is 90% of what number?

4.27 is 90% of what number?

4 – 4 Percent of Change

Objectives: You will find

the percent of change and
find the percent error.
Percent Change

• A percent of change tells us how

much an amount has changed
relative to the original amount.

• These are frequently used to

describe changes: prices,
stocks, populations, etc.
Percent of Change

• Percent of Increase: When a value

increases from its original amount.

• Percent of Decrease: When a value

decreases from its original amount
(sometimes this is represented by a
negative number).
Percent Change

• Recall that to calculate a

percent change, we put the
amount of change over the
original amount.
• In math terms that looks like:
amount of change
% change =
original amount
Example

In 1965, when John entered

college, the tuition per
year was $7500. In 2000,
when his daughter went to
the same school, the
tuition was $25,500. Find
the percent change.
Example

One of the largest stock market

drops on Wall Street occurred
on October 19, 1987. On this
day, the stock market opened
at 2246.74 points and closed
at 1738.42 points. What was
the percent change?
Greatest Possible Error

• Because no measurement is exact,

you always measure to the nearest
“something”.

• The greatest possible error in a

measurement is one-half of that
measuring unit.
Examples
½ of 0.1 g or 0.05 g ½ of 1 cm or 0.5 cm

A. You use a beam B. You measure a

balance to find the
mass of a rock
picture for the
sample for a science yearbook and
lab. You read the record its height
scale as 3.8 g. What as 9 cm. What is
is the greatest
possible error?
your greatest
possible error?
Finding Maximum & Minimum
Areas
1. You must remember that area of a rectangle is equal to
the length times width.

2. Add the GREATEST POSSIBLE ERROR to both

dimensions, then find the area (this is the Maximum
Area)

3. Subtract the GREATEST POSSIBLE ERROR to both

dimensions, then find the area (this is the Minimum
Area)
Example

Maximum Area
13.5 • 7.5
13 ft
= 101.25 ft2

Minimum Area
12.5 • 6.5
= 81.25 ft2
7 ft
Percent Error

• It is another way to think of the error

in measurement

• It is the ratio of the greatest possible

error and the measurement
greatestpossibleerror
percenterror=
actualmeasuremen t
Example
1. Calculate the
A DVD has a greatest possible
diameter of 12.1 error
cm. Find the 2. Use the percent
percent error in error formula
your 3. Divide
measurement.
GPE = ½ of 0.1 cm 4. Round to the
nearest tenth and
or 0.05 cm write as a percent.
0.05 ≈ Don’t forget to
move your decimal
12.1 0.004132231
= 0.4 % “to the right, to the
4 right
 Finding Percent Error in
Calculating Volume.
1. Use Greatest Possible Error to convert dimensions into
maximum and minimum values
2. Find actual, maximum and minimum volumes by
remembering VOLUME = length x width x height
3. Find the possible error by subtracting the actual volume
from the maximum volume.
4. Divide the possible error by the actual volume
5. Round and write the error as a percent
Got It! Good!

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Please note that your book

represents decreases by using
negative numbers. This is not
required as long as the increase
or decrease is specified.
Ticket to Leave

1. 5 is what percent of 67?

2. 79 is 44% of what number?

3. What is 0.2% of 834?