Friday, April 8, 2016

4/8 Lesson 7.1.3 Solving Problems Involving Percents

1.  Warm-up:  Using the idea of scale factors, efficiently solve each percent problem

a)  What is 85% of 40?

b)  What is 8% of 25?

c)  What is 35% of 240?


Turn-in:  Any Chapter 6 reworks?  Turn in what you have for partial credit


2.  Lesson 7.1.3 Solving Percent Problems (page 390)
  • Objective: I will solve percent problems efficiently using the idea of multiplication of scale factors.
  • We are moving away from percent rulers for more efficient strategies.
  • Problems 27 through 30 as Red Light, Green Light
    • Skip Problem 29 c)
  • Dojo Challenge:  Problem 31
Exit Ticket:  Cynthia wants to pay a 20% tip on her $74 dinner bill.  Write an expression (not the answer!) that she could use to calculate the tip amount.

Homework:  Finish Lesson 7.1.3 (Problems 27 through 30)