Question

How do I find the percent of a number?

Answer 1

`(x)/(100) =` the value you are solving for over total value.

Explanation:

The way I learned it was like this:

Let's say you're trying to find the percent of red marbles there are in a pile. You have 24 red marbles and there are 48 in all. Set it up like so:

`(x)/(100) =(24)/(48)`

x is over 100 because all percents are out of 100, and 24 is over 48 because that's the value you are trying to solve the percent for. Then cross-multiply.

`(x)/(100) =(24)/(48)\\48(x)=24(100)\\48x=2400`

Then divide.

`48x` ÷
`48x=2400` ÷
`48`

`x=50`

So the percentage is fifty.