Tell a real life situation where you could use percents to compare data instead of using fractions or decimals. Why does using percents result in a more meaningful comparison than using fractions or decimals?
Can you please help me? I dont rly understand this question!!
2007-03-03 14:32:41 · 4 answers · asked by ? 2 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Mathematics
It seems to me that at least 3/4 of the people using this website are asking us to do their homework for them. Someday they will be the 1/4 of the population who fill the lowest paying jobs in 99/100 of the service industries.
It seems to me that at least 75% of the people using this website are asking us to do their homework for them. Someday they will be the 25% of the population who fill the lowest paying jobs in 99% of the service industries.
2007-03-03 15:32:13 · answer #1 · answered by NJGuy 5 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Percent is just a specific form of decimals (decimals to two places, Latin "per centum" = per one hundred)
How many cents in a dollar?
Most children learn the percent system when they learn about money. The percent method of expressing a fraction then becomes most associated with finance. Eventually it becomes the most comfortable form of fractions that people see everyday because people use money every day.
Twenty five cents = $0.25 = 25/100 of a dollar = 1/4 dollar = 25% of a dollar = "a quarter"
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2007-03-03 15:58:53 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Percent means per cent or per 100.
Thus a percent is a fraction, but all percents by definition have the common denominator 100 which makes it easy to compare.
E.g., you immediately know that 18% of something is less than 34% of that same something. But you have to think a moment before deciding whether 13/16 is greater than 5/6.
I'll leave it to you to come up with the requested situation -- any trivial example should suffice.
2007-03-03 14:41:03 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
Clearly you can't divide a person into a fraction of a person or a decimal equivalent of a person, but you could very easily use percentages as a means to group people into various categories.
Just a brief example.
2007-03-03 14:41:18 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋