1. Have a look at the picture and fi nd some special offers that use percentages. Can you make up 3 of your own special offers using percentages?
Remember: the word per cent means for each hundred.
2. Find 5 words that contain the word cent and explain the meaning of each.
3. What percentage of each of these 100-squares is a) green b) pink and c ) white?
Strand: Number 154
Curriculum Objectives: Use percentages and relate them to fractions and decimals; compare and order percentages of numbers; solve problems relating to profi t and loss, discount, VAT, interest, increases, decreases.