About this video
Keisha runs 170 meters in one minute today, which is 125% of what she ran three years ago. The video rewrites 125% as 5/4, draws a tape diagram of five equal fourths totalling 170 meters, finds each fourth is 34 meters, and so four-fourths is 136 meters.
You'll be able to
- rewrite a percent like 125% as a simplified fraction.
- use a tape diagram to find the whole when I know a percent of it.
- explain why 100% is the original amount in a problem.
Key words
- tape diagram
- A bar split into equal parts that helps you see how amounts relate.
- whole
- The full original amount, which is 100%.
- 125%
- 125 per 100, which is the same as 5/4, or one whole and a quarter more.
Transcript
- [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.
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