Sixty percent of the sixth grade students at Jackson Middle School play a sport If 114 sixth grade students play a sport how many sixth grade students are there in the school You are given the part 114 students and the percent 60 You need to find the whole In other words 60 of what number is 114 You can use bar diagrams ratio tables double number lines and equivalent ratios to find the whole Method 1 Use a bar diagram Sixty is a multiple of 10 and 10 is a factor of 100 Draw a bar diagram with 10 equal size sections of 10 each because 10 x 10 100 Shade 6 sections to represent 60 Label the shaded sections as 114 students because 60 of the whole is 114 Percent 0 114 students Percent 0 60 Of Each section represents the same number of students There are 6 shaded sections Divide 114 by 6 to find the number of students represented by each section ni qata 114 6 19 Divide Each section represents 19 students 1 114 students 19 19 19 19 19 19 19 19 19 19 d 60 100 100 19 x 10 190 Multiply The whole is 190 students C000100 Because each section represents 19 students and there are 10 total OUT sections multiply 19 by 10 to find the total number of sixth grade students no in 114 There are 190 sixth grade students MA 6 AR 3 5 e Talk About It How can you use bar diagram to fin number of sixth g students who do play a sport