In the world we live in we are constantly bombarded with phrases that contain the word “percent.” The sales tax in California is 8.25%. An employee is asking his boss for a 5% raise. In this chapter w...In the world we live in we are constantly bombarded with phrases that contain the word “percent.” The sales tax in California is 8.25%. An employee is asking his boss for a 5% raise. In this chapter we introduce the concept of percent, first addressing how to facilitate writing percents in fraction or decimal form and also performing the reverse operations, changing fractions and decimals to percents.
