Learn Percentages for Life and Work

Name: Learn Percentages for Life and Work
Rating: 4.4 (27 reviews)

Learn practical business maths that you can actually use!

Created byHowson Ed

Last updated 3/2020

English

What you'll learn

How to work out percentages, percentage increase, discounts, value added tax and simple interest.

4 sections • 15 lectures • 35m total length

Course Overview2:18
This video is an overview of the course; the topics covered are:
Introduction (why percentages, why do you need them?)
Percentages as fractions
Percentages as decimals
Quick percentage tips
Working out percentages
Percentage increase and decrease
Percentage change
Reverse percentages
Practical percentages: discounts
Practical percentages: value added tax (vat) / sales tax
Practical percentages: income tax
Practical percentages: simple interest
Practical percentages: compound interest
Summary and recap
Introduction to percentages2:49
This lecture will help you answer the questions:
Why percentages?
Where percentage is used?
What are percentages?

Percentages as fractions2:42
How to convert percentages to fractions. How to convert fractions to percentages.
Percentages as decimals1:33
How to convert percentages to decimals. How to convert decimals to percentages.
Quick percentage calculation tips1:52
How to quickly work out 10%, 20% and 50% without using a calculator.
Working out percentages2:01
How to work out one quantity as a percentage of another.
Percentage increase and decrease1:26
How to work out percentage increase and percentage decrease
Percentage change2:04
How to work out percentage change.
Reverse percentages2:46
How to work out reverse percentages

This course will help you learn how to work out percentages and apply this skill in practical solutions. The topics in this course include:

People looking to work out discounts, bank interest on their savings and income tax