Question

I need help determining the fractional percentage of a number. Ie. 4% of 36 = ?
Please show your steps.

Answer 1

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4% in fraction form is 4 over 100
and "of" means multiplying
so multiply 4/100 * 36 =

Answer 2

there is a formula : is/of = %/100

now read your problem, you will be given 2 numbers and you just have to find the third.
4% of 36 = (= is the same as is)

is/of = %/100
your are given the percent , it is 4
you are given the " of " term, it is 36
so we are looking for the " is " term which we will use x to represent that term
now we sub into our formula..
x/36 = 4/100 (this is a proportion and we need to cross multiply)
(100)(x) = (36)(4)
100x = 144 -- divide by 100
x = 144/100 = 1.44

4% of 36 = 1.44

Answer 3

Made a mistake typing the question... it is .4% or 0.4%.

Answer 4

Remember that a percent is over a 100. A decimal is usually written upon a hundred. And writing the decimal (if it is in the hundredths place), then the fraction will be over a Hundred. Practically, we use 100 as our base.

Are you with me so tar?

Answer 5

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Answer 6

yea

Answer 7

Since we have .4 % then that means that we write that as a decimal. Since to convert a decimal to percent, we move the decimal place two places to the RIGHT. Now since we are doing the inverse, you need to go to the LEFT. If you move the decimal of 0.4 two places the left, we get 0.004. Now we want to find what is 0.004 (decimal) of 36. That means we multiply 0.004 x 36 to get our answer. Also remember that 'of' means to multiply in math when it is between two numbers.

Answer 8

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Answer 9

That makes sense, Thanks :)

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Answer 11

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