Percent Applications

Use proportional relationships to solve percent problems (backward)

Use proportional relationships to answer each percent application problem.

After a 12% tax was applied, Caroline paid a total of $336 for a concert ticket. How much was the ticket's price before tax was added?

Use proportional relationships to solve multistep ratio and percent problems. Examples: simple interest, tax, markups and markdowns, gratuities and commissions, fees, percent increase and decrease, percent error.