MathsYear 6Ratio & Proportion
Solve problems using percentages for comparison
Solve problems involving the calculation of percentages and the use of percentages for comparison
What you'll learn
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Imagine a chocolate bar 🍫 with 100 squares. Percent means 'out of 100', so every square is 1 percent!
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How many squares are in a chocolate bar that is 100%?
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Shade 25 squares on this 100-grid — that's 25%.
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A school has 200 pupils. 40% walk to school. How many walk?
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There are 300 books in a library. 60% are storybooks. How many are storybooks?
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A bag has 50 marbles. 20% are red. How many red marbles?
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A cake weighs 400 g. 25% is sugar. How many grams of sugar?
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