Showing posts with label Counting percentage. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Counting percentage. Show all posts

Monday, May 20, 2013

Learn How to Count Percentage

Introduction to learn how to count percentage

In mathematics, a percentage is a way of expressing a number as a fraction of 100 (per cent meaning "per hundred" in French). It is often denoted using the percent sign, "%", or the abbreviation "pct". For example, 45% (read as "forty-five percent") is equal to 45 / 100, or 0.45. Counting percentage means the process of expressing the value of a number in 100. (Source: From Wikipedia).

Here we are going to learn how to count percentage.

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Example problems to learn counting percentage

Here we will learn some example problems to count percentage.

Example 1

Write the fraction `30/100` as a percentage

Solution

Here 30 is expressed as a fraction of 100. To write `30/100` as a percent we have to multiply `30/100` by 100.

We, get `30/100` * 100 = 30

So, 30/100 is equal to 30 percentage or 30%

Example 2

Count the percent of 30 in 80

Solution

Here we have to count the percent of 30 in 80.

Let x be the percentage,

So, `30/80` = `x/100`

x = `30/80` * 100

x = `300/8`

x = 37.5

So, 30 is 37.5 percent of 80

Example 3

What is 30 percent of 20.

Solution

Here we have to find the value of 30 percent in 20

Let the number be x

So, `x/20` = `30/100`

x = `30/100` * 20

x = `600/100`

x = 6

So, 30 percent of 20 is 6.


Few more examples to learn counting percentage

Here we will learn few more problems to count percentage.

Example 1: Write the decimal 0.25 as fraction

Solution

0.25 can be written as 25/100 in fraction

To convert this fraction into percentage we have to multiply the fraction by 100

Doing so, `25/100` * 100 = 25

So, 0.25 is 25 percent.

Example 2: Write the proportion 32:100 as a percent

Solution

The proportion 32:100 can be written as `32/100` in fractional form.

Now, `32/100` can be written as `32/100` * 100 = 32 percent

So, 32:100 is equal to 32 percent.

Example 3: 25 is 4 percent of what number.

Solution

Let the number be x

So, `25/x` = `4/100`

This equation can be written as, x = `25/4` * 100

x = 25 * 25

x = 625

So, 25 is 4 percent of 625.