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Quantitative Literacy
Rates, Ratios, Proportions, and Percents
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Ratios
A solution of alcohol and water contains 15 milliliters of water and 5 milliliters of alcohol. Find the ratio of alcohol to water, water to alcohol, water to total solution, and alcohol to total solution. Write each ratio as a fraction and reduce to lowest terms.
Suppose a pizza restaurant advertised the prices shown in the book for their deep dish pizza. Use the information to find the ratio of the cost of the large cheese pizza to the medium cheese pizza.Then change the ratio to a decimal rounded to the nearest tenth.
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Rates and Unit Pricing
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Proportions
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Applications of Proportions
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Percents, Decimals, and Fractions
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Percent Problems
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General Applications of Percent
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Unit Analysis: Length
Mini Lecture
Make the conversions by multiplying by the appropriate conversion factor. Write the answer as a whole number or mixed numbers.
27 inches to feet
2 yds to feet
4.8 km to meters
New pencils are 19 cm long. Convert to meters
A furlong is 220 yds, how many feet are in 12 furlongs?
Convert 55 miles/hour to feet/second