Exercise 2 Page 140

Let's start by recalling that the percent proportion is a proportion that sets the ratio of a part of a whole equal to the ratio of a percent out of 100. part/whole=percent/100 We want to find what percent of 84 is 12. Let n represent the percent. 12/84=n/100 Now we can solve the proportion we got for n. Let's do this by using the fact that the cross products of any proportion are equal.

Finally, we will use the Division Property of Equality to get the value of n.

We got that n≈ 14.3 is a solution to the proportion. This means that 12 is about 14.3 % of 84.