Child Development and Pedagogy · Pedagogy
A student was given the following problem on percentage to solve: 'Find the percentage of decrease if the population of a city decreased from 28,000 to 26,500.' She wrote the following solution: Original population = 28,000; New population = 26,500; % decrease = 26,50028,000 × 100% = 94.6%. Which of the following is most appropriate with respect to the response of the student?
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- 1Student does not know the concept of percentage.
- 2Student has solved the question correctly but has used wrong symbols in solution.
- 3Student can understand the concept of percentage but is not able to understand the percentage of which quantity is to be found.✓
- 4Student has made a careless mistake.
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Student can understand the concept of percentage but is not able to understand the percentage of which quantity is to be found.
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