1. Objective: Learn to find percents
8.2: Finding Percents
Objective:
Learn to find percents

2. Finding the percent Find 20% of 220.
What if you were asked to find what percent of 220 is 44? How would you set it up?

3. Finding What Percent One Number is of Another
Example 1:
a) What percent of 220 is 88?

4. Finding a Percent of a Number
Example 1:
b) Eddie weighs 160 lb, and his bones weigh 24 lb. Find the percent of his weight that his bones are.

5. Finding Percent One Number is of Another
Example 2:
a) After a drought, a reservoir had only of the average amount of water. If the average amount of water is 57, 000, 000 gallons, how much water was in the reservoir after the drought?

6. Finding Percent One Number is of Another
Example 2:
b) Ms. Chang deposited $550 in the bank. Four years later, her account held 110% of the original amount. How much money did Ms. Chang have in the bank at the end of the four years?

7. HOMEWORK
Work in groups on “Think and Discuss” on page 406; turn in at the end of class.
8.2 hw pg. 407: 6 – 24 (evens)