3. Example Problem for Percentage of a Whole
There is a bowl of hard candies sitting on a table. Fifteen are peppermint, ten are cinnamon, and 35 are Butterscotch. How would students go about finding out what percentage of the candies are peppermint? First, they need to add each type of candy together to find out the total number of candies in the bowl. This would be 15 (peppermint) + 10 (cinnamon) + 35 (butterscotch) = 60 total pieces. Therefore, 60 represents 100%. We want to know the percentage of peppermint candies. We know we have 15 of them. The number 15 becomes the numerator of a fraction, and 60 is the denominator of the fraction. Fifteen divided by 60 equals 0.25. Multiplied by 100, that makes 25, so 25% of the candies are peppermint.
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