The Meaning of Percent
The Meaning of Percent
The Meaning of Percent
Percent
Problem:
Grid 2
Grid 3
Answer
Answer
Answer
Each grid above has 100 boxes. For each grid, the ratio of the number of shaded boxes to
the total number of boxes can be represented as a fraction.
Ratio
96 to 100
9 to 100
77 to 100
Fraction
=
9%
=
77%
A percent is a ratio whose second term is 100. Percent means parts per
hundred. The word comes from the Latin phrase per centum, which means per
hundred. In mathematics, we use the symbol % for percent.
Let's look at our comparison table again. This time the table includes percents.
Ratio
Fraction
Percent
96 to 100
96%
09 to 100
09%
77 to 100
77%
Let's look at some examples in which we are asked to convert between ratios, fractions,
decimals and percents.
Example 1: Write each ratio as a fraction, a decimal, and a percent: 4 to 100, 63 to 100, 17
to 100
Solution
Ratio
Fraction
Decimal
Percent
04 to 100
.04
04%
63 to 100
.63
63%
17 to 100
.17
17%
Example 2: Write each percent as a ratio, a fraction in lowest terms, and a decimal: 24%,
5%, 12.5%
Solution
Example 3:
Percent
Ratio
Fraction
Decimal
24%
24 to 100
.240
05%
05 to 100
.050
12.5%
12.5 to 100
.125
Solution
Percent Decimal
91.2%
.9120
04.9%
.0490
86.75%
.8675
A farm layout is the planning out of the farm. The arranging of the farm into different sections to
know where places in the farm are, for example to know where the poultry is located.
Farm Layout: A Farm layout refers to the compiling of physical structures such as
homesteads, outbuildings, waterways, contours, camps, water supply roads and the
layout of orchards, vineyards or lands. However, the area where the farm is
situated, the topography, the availability of natural resources, the farming practices,
the different enterprises, the availability of capital and the preference of the
farmer/owner will also affect the farm layout.
1.
drought
(drout) also drouth (drouth)
n.
1. A long period of abnormally low rainfall, especially one that adversely affects growing or living con
ditions.
2. A prolonged dearth or shortage.
After 2 years of drought, the people ran outside to dance and celebrate once it finally began to rain.
barren
[bar-uh n]
Spell Syllables
Synonyms
Examples
Word Origin
adjective
1.
not producing or incapable of producing offspring; sterile:
a barren woman.
2.
unproductive; unfruitful:
barren land.
3.
without capacity to interest or attract:
a barren period in American architecture.
4.
mentally unproductive; dull; stupid.
5.
not producing results; fruitless:
a barren effort.
6.
destitute; bereft; lacking (usually followed by of):
barren of tender feelings.
noun
7.
Usually, barrens. level or slightly rolling land, usually with a sandy soiland few tree
s, and relatively infertile.
breechcloth
[breech-klawth, -kloth]
Spell Syllables
Word Origin
noun, plural
breechcloths
1.
1.
3.
to wait.
verb (used with object), tarried, tarrying.
4.
Archaic. to wait for.
noun, plural tarries.
5.
a stay; sojourn.
a traditional story, especially one concerning the early history of a people or explaining
some natural or social phenomenon, and typically involving supernatural beings or
events.
a traditional or legendary story, usually concerning some being or heroor eve
nt, with or without a determinable basis of fact or a naturalexplanation, espe
cially one that is concerned with deities or demigodsand explains some practi
ce, rite, or phenomenon of nature.
He found it laughable that the living invented so many myths to create a
false sense of security regarding the dark predators.