7th Grade - Intro to Percentages

Percent (Per Cent) means “by the hundred” or “divided by one hundred”. 

So if we say that 24% of the people were female, that if there were 100 people, 24 of them would be female. A percentage is a fraction with 100 as the denominator

Below are videos that might be helpful:

https://www.khanacademy.org/math/pre-algebra/decimals-pre-alg/percent-intro-pre-alg/v/representing-a-number-as-a-decimal-percent-and-fraction

https://www.khanacademy.org/math/pre-algebra/decimals-pre-alg/percent-word-probs-pre-alg/v/solving-percent-problems-2

https://www.khanacademy.org/math/pre-algebra/decimals-pre-alg/percent-intro-pre-alg/v/finding-percentages-example

Homework: Exercise 7.1 (page 160) #1, 2 and 4 – 9