Grade 8 - Number
Standard 8.N.3 - Practice finding the percents of numbers in a word problem.
Included Skills: Ratios
Demonstrate an understanding of percents greater than or equal to 0%, including greater than 100%. • Provide a context where a percent may be more than 100% or between 0% and 1%. • Represent a given fractional percent, using grid paper. • Represent a given percent greater than 100%, using grid paper. • Determine the percent represented by a given shaded region on a grid, and record it in decimal, fraction and percent form. • Express a given percent in decimal or fraction form. • Express a given decimal in percent or fraction form. • Express a given fraction in decimal or percent form. • Solve a given problem involving percents. • Solve a given problem involving combined percents, e.g., addition of percents, such as GST + PST. • Solve a given problem that involves finding the percent of a percent; e.g., "A population increased by 10% one year and by 15% the next year. Explain why there was not a 25% increase in population over the two years."