Percentages are proportions of whole numbers. You will probably have come across adults talking about a 5% pay rise or 10% inflation for example. But what does this actually mean? Well, 5% is the same as one twentieth so a 5% pay rise means an extra 5 cents in every dollar. But 10% is the same as one tenth so 10% inflation means that prices have gone up by 10 cents in every dollar. There are many ways of showing parts of whole numbers, like fractions or decimal numbers. Another way is with percentages. Percentage means the number of parts in 100. Percentage is used sometimes to give you a... Show more

Percentages are proportions of whole numbers. You will probably have come across adults talking about a 5% pay rise or 10% inflation for example. But what does this actually mean? Well, 5% is the same as one twentieth so a 5% pay rise means an extra 5 cents in every dollar. But 10% is the same as one tenth so 10% inflation means that prices have gone up by 10 cents in every dollar.

There are many ways of showing parts of whole numbers, like fractions or decimal numbers. Another way is with percentages. Percentage means the number of parts in 100. Percentage is used sometimes to give you a discount when shopping. You will come across percentages regularly in everyday life and therefore they are important to learn.

There are various ways to write numbers such as decimals, fractions or percentages. If you picked a bunch of flowers from the garden with 9 purple flowers and 3 yellow, what percentage of yellow flowers do you have now?

3 out of 12 is one-quarter which can be written as either 0.25, 1⁄4 or 25%.

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