Modeling Percentages

What percent of the grid is shaded?

What percent of the grid is shaded?

What percent of the grid is shaded?

Which percent is equivalent or equal to the fraction in the picture?

• 57%

• 100%

• 143%

• 43%

Answer explanation

A percent, or percentage, is a special fraction that always has 100 as the denominator. Because the bottom of a percent is always 100, we don’t even write it. We remove the 100 and put a % instead. 43/100 = 43%.

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Which model is more reasonable to find 45% of a number?

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CCSS.6.RP.A.3C

What percent of the model is yellow?

• 10%

• 87%

• 90%

• 13%

What percent is this? ____%

(type numbers only)

Write in percent form.

• 3%

• 30%

• 33%

• 300%

Which percent is equivalent or equal to the fraction in the picture?

• 89%

• 100%

• 189%

• 11%