17 videos in "Percents"
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Percent: Essential concepts
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Extra Examples: Converting Percents
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Percent
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Percent Problems
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Applications of Percent
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Sales Tax and Commission
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Percent Increase, Decrease, and Discount
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Write a Number as a Percent 1
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Write a Number as a Percent 2
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Percents Part 1
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Percents Part 2
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Percents Part 3
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Percents Part 4
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Percents Part 5
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Solve Percent Equations Part 1
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Solve Percent Equations Part 2
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Solve Percent Equations Part 3
Percent Increase, Decrease, and Discount
Percent Increase, Decrease, and Discount
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More application word problems of percents. This video talks about percent increases, percent decreases, and discounts.
- How do you calculate percent increase, percent decrease, and discounts?
- What are some real-world applications of percents?
- How do you write and solve percent equations from word problems?
- If the annual tuition at a four year college is expected to increase from $4,500 to $5,400 next year, what is the percent increase?
- How do you find the percent increase of a price?
- How do you solve 900.00 = x*4,500.00?
- If a person whose salary is $42,000.00 receives a 2% pay cut, what is the salary decrease and what is the new salary?
- How do you solve x = 0.02*42,000.00?
- If during a clearance sale, a pair of shoes that originally sold for $89.95 is marked down to $53.97, what is the percent discount?
- How do you solve 35.98 = x*89.95?
This is another very practical percent video that has you finding percent increase, percent decrease, and discounts of prices. Each problem is a little different and gives you different pieces of information and is looking for different things as the answer.
