PERCENT &

PERCENTAGE

REPORT BY MAYMONA SAABDULA & VERONICA NEBRES

PERCENT & PERCENTAGE
-are also used to denote increases or decreases in the values of certain quantities or, more
commonly, to express how large a portion a specified part is of a given whole.

-the term “percent” is comes from Latin phrase per centum, which means “by the hundred”. If a whole
is divided into 100 equal parts, then each part represents one percent of the whole, and is denoted by
1%.
-To perform computatios involving percent, it is necessary to convert a given percent to
its equivalent in decimal form. Since the whole is divided into one hundred equal parts,
r% is equivalent to the fraction r/100 and to its equivalent decimal. To convert a given
percent too its equivalent decimal form, simply drop the percent symbol %, and move
the decimal point two places to the left.

EXAMPLE 1:
To convert 24.6% to a decimal, we drop the percent symbol and move the
decimal point two places to the left, to get 0.246.

EXAMPLE 2:
To convert the decimal 1.28 into percent, move the decimal point two
places to the right, and affix the percent symbol, to get 128%.

Computations involving percents usually make use of the formula p=r x b,

where p is the percentage or the part of the whole indicated by the percent, r is
the rate that appears in the indicated percent and expressed as a decimal ,and
b is the base or the size of the whole. The following examples show computations
involving percent.
• To solve for one of the three quantities in terms of the other two, manipulate the above formula algebraically
to move the variable whose value is being solved for on one side of the equation. The above formula solves
for the percentage p. To solve for the other two quantities, we can rewrite the formula into the following
forms:

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r= ,
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