Decimals and Percents

Overview/Description
 A basic understanding of decimals and percentages is key to any businessperson, whether tallying costs for warehouse supplies or estimating resource allocation. This course instructs the learner in the following: how to use decimals, including addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division; how to solve problems involving percentages to determine portions, a rate, a whole unit, and increases and decreases--and how to apply these operations in business settings.

Target Audience
 Anyone who needs to apply basic math skills to business

Expected Duration
2.0 hours

Lesson Objectives:

Using Decimals

  • recognize the importance of understanding decimals in the workplace.
  • match various digits in a decimal number with their appropriate place values.
  • add and subtract decimals.
  • add or subtract decimals to solve a problem in a hypothetical business situation.
  • multiply decimals.
  • multiply decimals to solve a problem in a given business scenario.
  • divide decimals.
  • divide decimals to solve a problem in a hypothetical business situation.

    • Using Percents

  • recognize the benefit of knowing how to work with percents.
  • compare partial quantities of a whole unit using simple percentages.
  • calculate portion, given rate and base.
  • calculate portion in a hypothetical business scenario.
  • calculate rate, given portion and base.
  • calculate the percent of one number compared to another in a given business situation.
  • calculate base, given portion and rate.
  • calculate the base in a hypothetical business scenario, given portion and rate.

    • Course Number: FNDT0102