Question

How to find percentage

Answer 1

Example: 5% of 20

Step 1: divide 5 by 100 like this 5/100 or you can write it like this 0.05
Step 2: multiply that by the number you’re trying to find the percentage of (20)

So you have 5/100 times 20/1
Or 0.05x20. This is 1.

So 5% of 20 is 1

Answer 2

The easiest way to find percentage is to multiply the number by 100. Like if you were required to find the percentage of 0.87 you multiply it by 100 and get 87 there for 0.87 is equal to 87%.

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