Mistake Master · SAT Math · Unit 3 · Step-Through Animation
A Percent Scales a Base
A percent scales a base, so the first move is finding the base and the second is multiplying, never subtracting the percent as if it were dollars. Points leak in taking the percent of the wrong base, treating a percent as an absolute number, and reporting the change when the value was asked.
percent × base
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