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

  1. 1

    Imagine a chocolate bar 🍫 with 100 squares. Percent means 'out of 100', so every square is 1 percent!

  2. 2

    How many squares are in a chocolate bar that is 100%?

  3. 3

    Shade 25 squares on this 100-grid — that's 25%.

  4. 4

    A school has 200 pupils. 40% walk to school. How many walk?

  5. 5

    There are 300 books in a library. 60% are storybooks. How many are storybooks?

  6. 6

    A bag has 50 marbles. 20% are red. How many red marbles?

  7. 7

    A cake weighs 400 g. 25% is sugar. How many grams of sugar?

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