Psychology GCSE
Ratios, fractions and percentages
What Ratios, fractions and percentages means in Psychology GCSE, as defined for AQA.
Definition of Ratios, fractions and percentages
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Reference: AQA
Ways of sharing or scaling quantities, such as splitting participants in a ratio, taking a fraction of an amount, or dividing the part by the whole and multiplying by 100.
Topics that use Ratios, fractions and percentages
- Data handling (AQA GCSE)
Related terms
- Arithmetic mean and significant figures
- Calculating from raw scores
- Choosing appropriate displays
- Decimal and standard form notation
- Frequency tables and tallies
- Histograms for continuous data
- Measures of central tendency
- Primary data
Using Ratios, fractions and percentages in the exam
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