We are asked to find about how many canned foods the seventh-graders collected if their goal was 200 cans. We know that they collected 129 % of their canned food goal. Let's start by rounding this percent.
129 % ≈ 130 %
Notice that 130 % of 200 is the sum of 100 % of 200 and 30 % of 200.
130 %of 200
⇓
( 100 %of 200) + ( 30 %of 200)
To find the percent of a number, we need to write the percent as a fraction and multiply it by the number. We can write the percent as a fraction by writing the number part as a numerator over 100.
( 100 %of 200) + ( 30 %of 200) [0.3em] ⇓ [0.3em]
( 100/100* 200) + ( 30/100* 200)
Finally, we will evaluate the expression that we got.
We found that the seventh-graders collected about 260 canned foods if their goal was 200 cans.
We are asked to find about how many canned foods the seventh-graders collected if their goal was 595 cans. We know that they collected 129 % of their canned food goal. Let's start by rounding both the percent and goal.
129 % ≈ 130 % [0.3em]
595 ≈ 600
Notice that 130 % of 600 is the sum of 100 % of 600 and 30 % of 600.
130 %of 600
⇓
( 100 %of 600) + ( 30 %of 600)
To find the percent of a number, we need to write the percent as a fraction]and multiply it by the number. We can write the percent as a fraction by writing the number part as a numerator over 100.
( 100 %of 600) + ( 30 %of 600) [0.3em] ⇓ [0.3em]
( 100/100* 600) + ( 30/100* 600)
Finally, let's evaluate our expression.
