Question

60 is what percent of 300?

I don't want the answer, ok so i want an example of how to solve it.
20 points for this cause its simple but its a good question for me.

Answer 1

70 is what percent of 280?

Explanation:

Percent means per 100. So the example question asks 70 out of 280 is what percent. You can do this problem a couple of different ways.

1. Set up a proportion (two fractions equal to each other,) and solve.

70/280 = x/100

reduce the left side.

7/28 = x/100

reduce further.

1/4 = x/100

cross-multiply.

1(100) = 4x

100 = 4x

divide by 4

100/4 = 4x/4

25 = x

70 is 25% of 280.

OR

you could divide directly and move the decimal two places to the right to find the percent.

70/280

= .25

move the decimal two places to the right.

.25 becomes 25%

I can edit if you actually wanted to see 60 and 300. Hope this helps!

Answer 2

20%

Explanation:

An easy and simple way to solve this problem would be to divide 60 by 300, keep going threw the decimals until you have no remainder, which gives you .2,

60/300 = .2

then you multiply .2 x 100 for your % answer, you could also count by 60s until you reach 300,

60 x 5 = 300

100/5 = 20%

hope this helps a lil!