What is 40,000 of 60 million? Percentage please
2007-10-13 03:54:31 · 21 answers · asked by rachel c 2 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Mathematics
0.066....%
2007-10-13 03:57:45 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 1⤋
You can turn this into the question:
40,000 is what % of 60,000,000?
is turns into =
what turns into x
of turns into times
40,000 = x% times 60,000,000
Solve for x.
40,000/60,000,000=x%
.0006666666 = x%
To turn .0006666666 into a percent move the decimal two places to the right and round since it's a repeating decimal.
The answer is .067%
Turning it into a question works for any percent problem. Example:
Find 10% of 20.
What is 10% of 20?
x = 10% times 20
x=.10 times 20
x= 2
10% of 20 is 2.
2007-10-13 11:13:09 · answer #2 · answered by KatieK 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
0.06667%. If you want to work it out you divide 40000 by 60 million and then you multiply it by 100, giving you 0.06667%.
2007-10-13 10:57:54 · answer #3 · answered by Heather M 2 · 3⤊ 0⤋
4 x 10^4 /6.0 x 10^7 = .67 x 10 ^-3 = .00067 = .067%
2007-10-13 10:58:05 · answer #4 · answered by G.V. 6 · 4⤊ 0⤋
the equation to use is.... "IS OVER OF EQUALS PERCENT OVER 100.......
40000 IS X percent OF 60000000
40000 over60000000=x over100 cross multiply
400000(100)=60000000X
4000000=60000000x (divide by 60000000)
4000000 divided by 60000000 =15
60000000divided by 60000000=(1)=X
15 = x
the answer is 15 %
2007-10-13 11:11:11 · answer #5 · answered by barb 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
60,000,000 represents 100%
40,000 represents x
x = (40,000 x 100)/ 60,000,000
x = 0.066 % repeating
2007-10-13 11:02:40 · answer #6 · answered by valery 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
40000/60000000 reduced to 4/60000=1/15000=0.0000666..7= .00666..7%
2007-10-13 11:28:20 · answer #7 · answered by Dave aka Spider Monkey 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
1500
2007-10-13 10:58:38 · answer #8 · answered by Bill M 2 · 0⤊ 3⤋
40000/ 60000000 = 0.0006666667
0.00066667 x 100% = 0.06667%
2007-10-13 11:27:09 · answer #9 · answered by cute_gurl 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
1500
2007-10-13 10:57:33 · answer #10 · answered by jo 3 · 0⤊ 4⤋
40,000
60,000,000
You can drop all the zeros they have in common.
4
6,000
So 4 divided by 6,000 times 100= ___%
0.066666666666666666666666666666667%
2007-10-13 11:02:09 · answer #11 · answered by eitaka 3 · 1⤊ 1⤋