Showing posts with label how to find percentage. Show all posts
Showing posts with label how to find percentage. Show all posts

Wednesday, June 24, 2009

How to find percentage

Topic :- Percentage

a percentage is a way of expressing a number as a fraction of 100. But to solve fraction problem
We don't need percentages.

Here is a simple problem ,which shows how to find percentage.

28 is what percent of 80?

Solution:-

Let the number 'x'

28 = x% of 80

x
28 = ------ * 80
100

Since, 25*4=80 and 25*5=100

x
28 = ------ * 4
5


divide with 4 on both sides

28 x 4
----- = ------ * ----
4 5 4

x
7 = -----
5

Multiply with 4 on both sides

7*5 = x

So x=35

35% of 80 is 28.




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