Percent Applications

Use proportional relationships to solve percent problems (percent decrease)

Use proportional relationships to answer each percent application problem.

A botanical garden had 1,500 species of plants. Due to pests, they lost 4% of them. How many species are left in the garden?

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.