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Example Question #1341 : Numbers And Operations
What is 30% of 150?
One way to go about solving this problem is to convert the percent into a decimal and multiply your whole number by that in order to get your answer. When converting a percent into a decimal, move the decimal point two spaces to the left:
30% = 0.30
Then, multiply this number times 150:
Your answer is .
Example Question #1342 : Numbers And Operations
If is of , what is of ?
We can solve for with the algebraic equation:
We can then calculate of :
Example Question #5 : Percentage
What is of ?
We can convert to or . We can then calculate .
Example Question #4 : How To Work With Percentages
Susan has a coupon for 10% off any one item at her favorite department store. There is also a storewide sale of 50% off all purchases.
If Susan wants to by a shirt originally priced at $42, how much will she pay?
$16.50
$37.80
$21.00
$20.00
$18.90
$18.90
The storewide sale discounts the shirt by 50%:
Susan also has the 10% off coupon, so she's really paying 90% of the cost of the shirt:
Example Question #4 : How To Find The Part From The Whole With Percentage
What is of ?
of can be rewritten as
Example Question #5 : Percentage
What is of ?
of is equal to:
Cross-cancel:
Example Question #2 : Percentage
What is 8,000% of 9,000?
Taking 8,000%, as a decimal, is equivalent to multiplying it by , so 8,000% of 9,000 is equivalent to
.
Example Question #1341 : Numbers And Operations
What is 220% of 0.00022?
220% of a number is 2.2 multiplied by that number, so 220% of 0.00022 is equal to
.
Example Question #1344 : Numbers And Operations
What is 3.33% percent of 3.33?
Taking 3.33% percent of a number is the same as multiplying it by 0.0333, so 3.33% percent of 3.33 is equal to
.
Example Question #1345 : Numbers And Operations
Refer to the above graph. If there were registered voters in Smith County in , how many voters were not registered as Republicans (nearest whole number)?
of the voters were registered as Republicans, so the rest - - were not. Therefore, we want to calculate of , or, equivalently,
which, to the nearest whole number, rounds to voters
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