{"id":4946,"date":"2026-01-21T19:47:50","date_gmt":"2026-01-21T19:47:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.terc.edu\/adultnumeracycenter\/?page_id=4946"},"modified":"2026-01-27T14:40:48","modified_gmt":"2026-01-27T14:40:48","slug":"exploring-75-some-answers","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.terc.edu\/adultnumeracycenter\/resources-for-teacher-growth-and-support\/learn-about-percents\/exploring-75\/exploring-75-some-answers\/","title":{"rendered":"Exploring 75% \u2014 Some Answers"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<center>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.desmos.com\/calculator\/uyqy9s3vjd?embed\" width=\"730px\" height=\"300px\" style=\"border: 1px solid #ccc\" frameborder=0><\/iframe>\n<\/center>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:50px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\"><strong>Use the model to answer the following questions:<br><br>1. What is 75% of 120?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">To find 75% of 120 with the model, drag the black dot so that 100% is 120. You should see that 75% is 90.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\"><strong>2. What is the whole if 45 is 75%?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">To find the whole when 45 is 75%, drag the orange dot to 45 and read the whole at 100%. The whole should be 60.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\"><strong>3. <strong>If 75% of a number is 90, what is 25% of that same number?<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">To figure this one out with the model, drag the orange dot to 90 and look at where 25% is. It should be at 30.<br>\u200b<br><strong>4. <strong>If 75% of a number is more than 80, what could the number be?<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">To answer this one, try moving the orange dot to any number that is bigger than 80. Any number bigger than about 107 would be correct as the whole.&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Use the model to answer the following questions:1. What is 75% of 120?<\/p>\n<p>To find 75% of 120 with the model, drag the black dot so that 100% is 120. You should see that 75% is 90.<\/p>\n<p>2. What is the whole if 45 is 75%?<\/p>\n<p>To find the whole when 45 is 75%, drag the orange dot to 45 and read the whole at 100%. The whole should be 60.<\/p>\n<p>3. If 75% of a number is 90,  <a href=\"https:\/\/www.terc.edu\/adultnumeracycenter\/resources-for-teacher-growth-and-support\/learn-about-percents\/exploring-75\/exploring-75-some-answers\/\">&nbsp;&raquo;&nbsp;Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":0,"parent":4492,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"template-fullwidth.php","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_relevanssi_hide_post":"","_relevanssi_hide_content":"","_relevanssi_pin_for_all":"","_relevanssi_pin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_unpin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_include_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_exclude_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_no_append":"","_relevanssi_related_not_related":"","_relevanssi_related_posts":"809,2264,2398,1346,1086,1124","_relevanssi_noindex_reason":"","footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-4946","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.terc.edu\/adultnumeracycenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4946","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.terc.edu\/adultnumeracycenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.terc.edu\/adultnumeracycenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.terc.edu\/adultnumeracycenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.terc.edu\/adultnumeracycenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4946"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.terc.edu\/adultnumeracycenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4946\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5071,"href":"https:\/\/www.terc.edu\/adultnumeracycenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4946\/revisions\/5071"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.terc.edu\/adultnumeracycenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4492"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.terc.edu\/adultnumeracycenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4946"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}