Estimating Percentages - Worksheet 3

"What's Percentage"?

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1. How many little squares are there in the big square? ________

2. Find a fast way to figure out how many little squares there are.

Percent: There are 100 pennies in a dollar. One penny is 1 percent (1%) of a dollar. 50 pennies are 50 percent (50%) of a dollar. Percent means part of 100 equal pieces of something.

3. Each little square is equal to ______ percent of the big square because the big square is made up of ______ little squares.

4. Color any ten little squares. What percent of the big square did you color? _______

5. How many more times can you color ten little squares before the big square is all colored? _______