How do you find 5% of something? What do you divide by to find 5% of 200,000?

Answer 1

multiply 200,000 by .05 =10,000
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Answer 2

Getting 5% of 200,000 would be easier to do by dividing it by 20. The answer would be 10,000 (change the 2 to a 1 and knock off a zero).

Multiplying 200,000 by 0.05 would also work, but you'd have to keep track of the decimals.

Answer 3

Divide by 20 to get 5% of any number, or multiply by 5 and then divide by 100, or divide by 10 and then divide the result by 2 (cut the result in half). Any of these processes will lead to the same result.

Answer 4

divide 5% by 100 then multiply by 200,000 = 10,000

Answer 5

in math, you should multiply a number to get its percentage. For example, if you want to get 10% of 100, multiply it. Remember to make the number with the rate a DECIMAL.

100
x.10

10

so if you are looking for 5% of 200,000, the answer is 10,000


200000
x .05

10000

Answer 6

To find 5% or any percent.. just take your original number and Multiply it by .05, that is the decimal version of five percent. If you wanted 5% of 50. Just take 50 x .05= 2.5

Answer 7

"Percent" means "per hundred".

So, 5% = 5/100 = 0.05

Five percent of 200,000 is simply:

0.05 * 200,000 = 10,000

Answer 8

5% of something = something x 5/100
5% of 200,000 = 10,000

Answer 9

Don't divide, multiply:

200,000 x 0.05

Answer 10

When the question calls for 5% of something, the function used is multiplication.

5%= 0.05
0.05 * 200, 000= 10, 000

Answer 11

To get 5% of a number .. just multiply that number by 0.05