Question

2 ACTIVITY: Estimating a Percents

Work with a partner. Use a model to estimate the answer to each question. c. 18 is what percent of 40?

Answer 1

18 is what percent of 40?
Answer: 45%

Answer 2

Answer: 45%

Explanation:

Converting the word problem into words, we have:

18= x/100*40

Solving for it, we get that x=45.