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Example Question #1391 : Numbers And Operations
What percent of the above figures are circles?
There are twelve figures, six of which are circles. This is
of the figures.
Example Question #13 : How To Find Percentage
is
of
.
is 2.5 % of
.
What percent of is
?
For the sake of simplicity, since this reasoning is independent of the actual value of , we will assume that
. Then
is
of 100, or simply
, and
is 2.5% of 100, or simply 2.5. To find out what percent
is of
, evaluate:
Example Question #55 : Percentage
is 20% of
and
of
.
What percent of is
?
20% of a number is of that number, so
. Equivalently,
of a number is
of that number, so
. Equivalently,
To find out what percent is of
, evaluate:
.
Example Question #1393 : Numbers And Operations
is 40% of
.
is 72% of
.
What percent of is
?
is 40 % of
, or
;
is 72% of
, or
.
To find out what percent is of
, evaluate:
.
Example Question #1 : How To Find The Distributive Property
Using the distributive property we get:
Example Question #2 : How To Find The Distributive Property
Which of the following expressions is equivalent to the expression ?
By the distributive property of multiplication over addition,
Example Question #3 : How To Find The Distributive Property
Which of the following expressions is equivalent to the expression ?
By the distributive property of multiplication over addition,
Example Question #1 : How To Find The Distributive Property
Simplify the expression:
Apply the distributive property:
Example Question #1 : How To Find The Distributive Property
Simplify the expression:
Apply the distributive property:
Example Question #2 : How To Find The Distributive Property
Which of the following is an example of an application of the distributive property?
According to the distributive property, for any values of ,
If we set , this become the statement
,
so this is the correct choice.
All of the other statements are true for different reasons:
is true because of the associative property of multiplication.
is true because of the commutative property of multiplication.
is true because of the commutative property of addition.
is true because of the identity property of multiplication.
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