Question

24% 24, percent of a number is what fraction of that number?

Answer 1

24% = 24/100 = 6/25

Answer 2

24% of a number is 6/25 of that number.

Explanation:

The word percent can be broken down into two sub units: per and cent, meaning per for every cent i.e. 100.

So when we call a number percent, it means that the number is divided by 100.

If we have 24 percent, then we can write it as 24 / 100 which can further be simplified by finding their greatest common factor.

For 24 and 100, we have 4 as their greatest common factor which gives us a value of
`(6)/(25)`.