Question

How do you figure out the percentage of a number? Please tell me the procedure.

Answer 1

Give me an example, please.

Answer 2

question- what is 25% of 100?
answer- take the percentage and move the decimal 2 places to the left. so 25% would become (.25). then multiply that by the number you are trying to find the percentage of (100) so .25*100= 25

Answer 3

@GoldPhenoix Ok. So what about if I have to find 20% of £40.

Answer 4

so it would be .20*40=8%

Answer 5

sorry, exclude the percentage sign at the end of the 8

Answer 6

Alright. Then you would want to use a proportion to solve this \[\large \large \frac{ is }{ of } = \frac{ percent }{ 100 }\] Now plug it in: \[\large \large \frac{ is }{ 40 } = \frac{ 20 }{ 100 }\] Now cross multiply. :)
40 * 20 = 800
800 = 100x
Divide both by 100 to get 8.

Answer 7

I hope this help! :)

Answer 8

Sorry for making this complicated, but if I do 40% of £20 then it is still the same. I don't understand that. Some people are saying that it is £32.

Answer 9

Meaning that it is still £8.

Answer 10

What are you trying to say? o.o.

Answer 11

I got confused from this. Please can you clarify this? "If a product was 20% off of $40 it would cost $32. ($40 minus $8 equals $32)" from the Ask.com community.

Answer 12

Correct.

Answer 13

Can you explain it to me?

Answer 14

Explain to you about what?

Answer 15

About the figuring of 32 from the citing posted above.

Answer 16

Oh. So there's a product that cost 40 dollars. And that product was on sale for 20%.
So you want to multiply 80% or .8 by 40 because you are still paying 80% of the original price. ;)
So 40 * .8 = 32.
I hope this help you understand! :)

Answer 17

Thank you.