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Showing posts with label PercentDecimalFraction. Show all posts

Wednesday, December 8, 2010

Breanna`s 3 Questions

Today in math class we got these 3 questions to do. We had to represent them on a raio table and a grid. Here is the work I did to answer them.

Question #1

A serving of ice cream contains 240 calories. One hundred fourty four come from fat. What percent of the total calories come from fat?

Here is what I did:





Simple Sentence: The amount of calories that somes from fat is 60 percent.





Question #2


You just hired a new baker to work for you. In 1 hour he burned 250 cookies. If this represented 21 percent of the days production, how many cookies had you planed on producing today?



Here is how I answered it:








Simple Sentence: The number of cookies you planned on making were 1190.




Question #3


A store that sells snowboards buys them from a manufactuerer for a wholesale price of $57. The store markup is 150 percent. What is the retail price?



Here`s how I answered:















Simple Sentence: The retail price is $85.50.



















Also here is a link I found. Check it out!