How do I find the percentage of something?

Answer 1

Example: What percent of 200 is 50?
50/200 = 1/4
Now multiply by 100.
(1/4)(100) = 25%

In general,
what percent of b is p?
Answer: (p/b)(100)%

If your question is
What is 30% of 50?
then
(30/100)(50) = 15

In general,
What is r% of p?
Answer: (r/100)(p)

Answer 2

Percentage means per-cent-age; that is per "one hundred" where cent means 100 as in century or 100 years, right? By converting the two numbers you have into a fraction expressed as a decimal amount you are half way there. For example, 50/100 = 1/2 = 0.50. Multiply the decimal amount times 100 to get the parts per 100 parts. In our example, 0.50 x 100 parts = 50 parts which we can call 50%.

3/2 = 1.5 and 1.5 x 100 = 150%

2/3 = 0.666.... and 0.666 x 100 = 66.6%

You do need to know whether the item you are interested in is smaller or larger than the item it is to be compared with. Hope that helps a little.

Answer 3

Well if you want for example to know how much 75% of 358 is you do: 358 x 75/100 (so thats your amount or number times the percentage, divided by hundred). I hope this is what you ment.

Answer 4

the percentage means the number of hundredths.
If 12 apples out of 100 apples are rotten,
then 12/100 = 0.12 = 12% of all the apples is rotten.

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Answer 5

divide the piece by the whole and multiply by 100.

for example what % does 5 out of 82 equal? 5 / 82 = .0609 x 100 = 6.09%

Answer 6

.....divide it by 100 >>>> 5/100=5%

Answer 7

hai it is just like this %=((no.of thinges)/(total no.of thinges))*100