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Introduction to Percentages
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Introduction to Percentages
📊 Part 1: Understanding Percentages
1. What does the symbol % mean?
Per ten
Per hundred
Per thousand
Per million
2. Which of these are equivalent to 50%? (Choose all that apply)
1/2
0.5
50/100
5/10
3. If 25 out of 100 students in a school wear glasses, what percentage wear glasses?
25%
75%
2.5%
250%
4. A shop has a "20% OFF" sale sign. This means:
You pay $20 less
You pay 20 cents less
You pay 20 out of every 100 dollars less
You get 20 items free
🔄 Part 2: Converting Between Forms
5. Complete the table by filling in the missing values:
Percentage: 10% | _____ | 75% | _____
Fraction: _____ | 1/4 | _____ | 9/10
Decimal: _____ | _____ | 0.75 | _____
6. Convert these percentages to fractions in simplest form:
a) 25% = _____
b) 60% = _____
c) 80% = _____
7. Convert these decimals to percentages:
a) 0.3 = _____
b) 0.15 = _____
c) 0.9 = _____
🌏 Part 3: Percentages in Real Life
8. List three places where you might see percentages used in everyday life in New Zealand:
9. Your phone battery shows 85%. Explain what this means in your own words:
10. A weather forecast says there's a 30% chance of rain in Auckland today. What does this percentage tell you?
11. Challenge: If 75% of your class of 24 students completed their homework, how many students completed it? Show your working:
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