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by Anonymous on May 12th, 2009

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What is the formula for finding the percentage of a number? e.g 6% of 700

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  • by Wide Awake @ has closing date woo hoo on May 12th, 2009

    Wide Awake @ has closing date woo hoo

    Convert the percent to a decimal (0.06) and multiply.

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  • by iwnit on May 13th, 2009

    iwnit

    6% = 6/100

    6% * 700 = (6/100)*700 = 6*7 = 42

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  • by The Chief on May 12th, 2009

    The Chief

    A percentage of a number is a way of expressing how much of a whole you are talking about.

    In this case, 100% represents EVERYTHING of whatever you are talking about.

    If you are talking about the entire population of a town (men, women, and children), then the entire population is represented as "100%".

    If you want to talk about a subset, or fraction, of the total population, like women, you would ratio the number of women to the total population to figure out what portion of 100% is composed of women.

    To make this simple, let's assume the total population of a town is 3,000 people. Let's assume that 20% of them are women. The goal is to find out how many actual women make up the population of 3,000 people.

    3,000 people equals 100% of the total population.

    To calculate any given percentage of the population, you take whatever portion you are talking about, divide that by the total population (3,000), which gives you a decimal number, and then multiply that by 100 to give you percentage.

    For example, assume we are talking about 1,500 people.

    1,500 divided by 3,000 equals 0.500 for a fraction. If you multiply this by 100, you will get 50.0%. 1,500 people is half the total population, which is 50% of the total population.

    To find an actual number from a percentage, you need to work backwards:

    20% of 3,000 total people is what?

    20% converted to a decimal form is 20 divided by 100. This gives you 0.20

    0.20 times the total population of 3,000 equals 600 people.

    A little double checking shows you that 0.20 is one fifth of the total. Which means that if one fifth of 3,000 equals 600, then if you multiply 600 by 5 you SHOULD get 3,000. And you do, so the correct answer here IS 600.

    So to find a percentage of any number, first convert the percentage value into a decimal and THEN multiply it by the total number. So 6% of 700 equals 0.06 times 700, which is 42.

    Another way to do simple ones is this:

    6% means 6 out of every 100. Since you have 7 hundreds in your example, 6 times 7 equals 42.

    I hope this helps.

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  • by technios on May 12th, 2009

    technios

    p = n times 20 divided by 2000... or you could just put the % symbol after the number.

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  • by Beany on May 12th, 2009

    Beany

    That would be 700 x 0.06

    (Basically divide your number by 100 then multiply by the percentage)

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  • by Ron-T on May 12th, 2009

    Ron-T

    6 x 700 =4200 divide by 100 = 42. hope this helps.

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