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Ratios and Percents, a la Shmoop. Poor Milton. He tries.

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But usually… he fails. Like bad hair, Milton is teased daily.

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Yesterday he was ridiculed an impressive 720 times just about the toilet paper stuck to

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his shoe. By referring to this pie chart, can you determine

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how many times he was teased about his camouflage pants?

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Here’s a handful of choices:

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Well, if 720 teasings represents 25% of the total number of derisive remarks aimed in

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Milton’s direction in a single day… …then we should be able to find that total

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number with the following equation: 720 divided by x equals point-two-five.

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In this equation, x represents the total sum of teasings.

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Solving for x we divide 720 by .25 to

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get 2,880. Wow. We’re guessing he struggles in the

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lady department. So now all we need to do is calculate 10% of 2,880.

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10 percent, or point-one times 2,880 equals 288.

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Answer “D” – you’re our man. 288 negative comments about the camo pants.

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Oh, Milton. How hard would it be to throw on a pair of blue jeans?

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