Percents Greater Than 100% and Percents Less Than 1%

Percents Greater Than 100% and Percents Less Than 1%

Outcome: A8Represent and apply fractional percents, and percents greater than 100,

in fraction or decimal form, and vice versa

Percent Less than 1%

  Because "percent" means "out of, or per 100", a percent which is less than 1% is a quantity which is ______.

  When you express a percent less than 1% as a decimal, the resulting decimal is ______.

  Examples:

Percent Greater than 100%

  A percent that is greater than 100% is a quantity which is ______or, in other words greater than 1.

  When you express a percent greater than 100% as a decimal, the resulting decimal is ______.

  Examples:

Representing Percents Greater than 100%

  Using a picture, how could we represent 150%

  What about 110%?

Calculating and Converting Percents, Fractions and Decimals

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