Wednesday, November 2, 2011

Finding the Percent of a Number

Hello, I am going to show you how to find the percent of a number.

An example of a question would be like - 25% of 80 is ? Now to find the percent of a number, you must use a Ratio Table. The ratio table must look like a T-chart:

Example (this is not what it should look like):
(Percents will be below this)-->%<-------------->#<--(Numbers will be below this.)

Now to figure out the answer of the question:

1. You make a T-chart and on the % side, you write 100:

%<-------------->#
100

2. On the # side you write the number, for this question, it is 80:

%<-------------->#
100 80

3.to reach 25% you should start the easy way - divide 100 by 2 = 50%:

%--------------#
100-----------80
50------------

4. Do what you did on the percent side:

%--------------#
100-----------80
50------------40

5.Divide 50 by 2 = 25%:

%--------------#
100------------80
50-------------40
25-------------20

Now we know that 25% of 80 is 20. Another way we would've done it is 100 divided by 4:

%<------------->#
100-----------80
25------------20

And here is a video of another way of finding the Percent of a Number:



Hope you learned something new..!!

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