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Combined Mathematics #9 [Friday 11-9, Period 4]

"Last week," Jean-Paul began as he breezed into the room a full three minutes after class was supposed to start (he liked to think of it as being 'fashionably late' as opposed to 'unable to find my keys'), "was fractions. This week is the fraction's bastard child, percentage: fractions of one hundred. You like percentages. Really, you do. You see them all the time, even on the packaging of the food you eat. Percentages are what help you figure out how much that great pair of jeans on sale is actually going to set you back, or whether you should eat the whole bag of chips. Percentages are how politicians lie to you all the time via polls. Remember, children, there are lies, damned lies, and statistics." He sat down behind his desk. "Your mission, should you choose to accept it, is to come up with one common use of percentages I have not mentioned already, and then to create a word problem using percentages. Begin."