Question

some one plz help what is 6 reduced by 20%???

Answer 1

when some one speaks of percentage, what number are they referring to?

Answer 2

6

Answer 3

no, a percent refers to 100

Answer 4

you have to give 100%

Answer 5

no my question ask The photo lab for the Cary News reduces each side of a photograph by 20%. The original size of the photo is 6 inches by 9 inches. What are the dimensions of the reduced photo?

Answer 6

I understand your question. But you first have to understand what a percentage is to answer the question

Answer 7

Take a dollar bill. It is 100 pennies, right?
So how much is 20%

Answer 8

i dont know im sorry i am not good with percents :(

Answer 9

if one dollar is 100 pennies, then 100% of one dollar is 100 pennies.
Do you follow that?

Answer 10

yes

Answer 11

So the key to understanding this problem, or any problem with percentages is to know that percent refers to 100

Answer 12

So if you take 20% from 100% how much is left?

Answer 13

80

Answer 14

Great

Answer 15

Know, how do we write out one dollar?

Answer 16

1.00

Answer 17

that 1 is 100%

Answer 18

oooh ok i kinda understand now

Answer 19

if we took one penny away we would have 99 cents
0.99

Answer 20

So how would you write 80%

Answer 21

0.80

Answer 22

Yes, good job

Answer 23

So now you are ready to do the problem

Answer 24

ok

Answer 25

now you have 6 and you want to take 20% away.
So, you can multiply by 80%

Answer 26

ok 5.80??

Answer 27

Multiply 6 * 80% like you wrote it

Answer 28

No, not quite. You subtracted .20 cents not 20%

Answer 29

4.8

Answer 30

Yes, great job

Answer 31

Now do the same for the 9

Answer 32

multiply it by 80??

Answer 33

80%

Answer 34

7.2

Answer 35

yes, good job

Answer 36

so you now have your two new dimentions

Answer 37

thank you i never understood how to do percent problems thank you :)

Answer 38

k bye gtg thx again :)

Answer 39

:)