ok it might be hard at first but keep trying.

What job is this used in? In other words why do we need to know this? Also u are really smart

Any job really. In basic conversations it's common to hear percentages. So it's crucial to understand percentages.

It might not help but that means you can do it or is it the other way around?

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Course: 6th grade > Unit 3

Lesson 3: Visualize percents

Finding the whole with a tape diagram

Name: Finding the whole with a tape diagram
Uploaded: 2022-01-05T23:09:03.722341896Z
Description: Keisha can run 170 meters in one minute today, which is 125% of her distance from three years ago. To find her previous distance, we convert 125% to 5/4 and divide 170 by 5, obtaining 34 meters per fourth. Multiplying 34 by 4 reveals that Keisha could run 136 meters in one minute three years ago.

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Keisha can run 170 meters in one minute today, which is 125% of her distance from three years ago. To find her previous distance, we convert 125% to 5/4 and divide 170 by 5, obtaining 34 meters per fourth. Multiplying 34 by 4 reveals that Keisha could run 136 meters in one minute three years ago. Created by Sal Khan.

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so the first step you did is point out that 100% of 170m of distance was completed in both cases.

then for the today’s section you combined the 125% with the the first “whole” into a fraction which is 125/100 and then simplified it which gave you 5/4.

This 5/4 im assuming gave us details as to how many “wholes” todays and the 3 years ago “wholes” distance % has. Which is indicated by the denominator.

And since we know in both cases that 170m was completely ran. they will share the same denominator/“wholes” which is 4. However the numerator will be different because well im not really sure why. Lol this logic is escaping me.

After that the logic you used to create the diagram was off to me in the sense that i am unfamiliar with too many concepts :(
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If you divide 170 by (125/100) you also get 136. Why does it also work this way?
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  It was just the thing he drew with sections of equal amounts. I dont think you had to know it beforehand.
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its like turning the percent in to fraction and find the amount. just like previous workings reversal?
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- [Instructor] We are told that Keisha can run 170 meters in one minute. This is 125% of the distance that she could run in one minute three years ago. How far could Keisha run in one minute three years ago? Pause this video, and see if you can figure this out. All right, now let's do it together. And my brain wants to make sure I know the difference between three years ago and today. So today, she can run 170 meters in one minute. And what we want to figure out is how much could she run in one minute three years ago? Well, we know this 170 meters is 125% of the distance that she could do three years ago. And the distance she could do three years ago, of course, is 100% of the distance that she could do three years ago, because it's the exact same distance. But I like to think in terms of fractions. So 125%, I could rewrite that as 125 over 100. If I divide both the numerator and the denominator by 25, this is equivalent to five over four. So that 170 meters, that is five-fourths of what she could do three years ago. And what you could do three years ago would be four-fourths of what she could do three years ago, because that's 100%. And so to figure out if five-fourths is 170 meters, what is four-fourths? Let us set up a tape diagram right over here. And I'm going to try to hand draw it as best as I can. I want to make five equal sections. And I know it's not exactly, but let's say for the sake of argument for this video, this is five equal sections. And so if we imagine that each of these are a fourth, this is five-fourths. And then this distance right over here is going to be 170 meters. That's what she could run today. And what we want to do is figure out what is four-fourths? That's the distance that she could run in one minute three years ago. So this is our question mark. Well to do that, we just have to figure out how big is each of these fourths? And if five of them is 170 meters, well, I just have to divide five into 170. Five goes into 17 three times. Three times five is 15. Subtract, I get a two here, bring down the zero. Five goes into 20 four times. Four times five is 20, and it works out perfectly. So each of these five-fourths are 34 meters. 34 meters, 34 meters, 34 meters, 34 meters, and 34 meters. And so the distance that she could run three years ago is going to be four of these fourths, or four of these 34 meters. So 34 times four, four times four is 16, three times four is 12, plus one is 13. So the mystery distance that she could run in one minute three years ago is 136 meters. And we are done.