Stage 3 · Fractions & Decimals

3.7.3 Percentages: How Many Out of Every Hundred

3.7 Converting Among Fractions, Decimals, and Percentages: Three Faces of One Number

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3.7.3 Percentages: How Many Out of Every Hundred

Core idea

Treat the whole as 100 parts, and taking 75 of them is 75% — the symbol % means "per hundred."

Module goal. Connect the three representations, introduce percentages as "how many per hundred," and pave the way directly into the next stage on ratios and percentages.

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