Ratio, proportion and percentages
Learn how to work with ratios, proportions, and percentages in everyday life with this free course. Discover how to manipulate figures and determine if discounts are as big as they claim. Improve your skills in converting between fractions, decimals, and percentages, and understand the meaning of ratio, proportion, and percentage. Find out how to calculate percentages of different quantities and determine percentage increases and decreases. Enhance your knowledge and become more familiar with these essential mathematical concepts. Start learning today!
From politics to cookery, ratios, proportions and percentages are part of everyday life. This free course is designed to help you become more familiar with how figures can be manipulated, then you can check whether that discount really is as big as they claim!
Course learning outcomes
After studying this course, you should be able to:
Work with simple ratios
Convert between fractions, decimals and percentages
Explain the meaning of ratio, proportion and percentage
Find percentages of different quantities
Calculate percentage increases and decreases.