SAT Math / Data Analysis

Percents and Units in Desmos

Part of the full libraryOpens January 2, 2027 · $97 for a year
What’s included
correlationA pattern where two quantities tend to change together: both rise, or one falls as the other rises. It does not prove that one causes the other.

You’ll leave with these skills

  1. Find a sale price from the original price, or the original price from the sale priceMultiply the original price by the percent left as a decimal, or divide the sale price by that decimal to get the original price.
  2. Combine two percent changes in a row into one calculationMultiply the starting amount by one decimal for each percent change, one change after the other.
  3. Convert a rate such as kilometers per hour into other unitsWrite each conversion as a fraction whose units cancel, and convert both the distance and the time.

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