Question

What percent of 20
is 16

Answer 1

well 4 is basically 1/5 of 20, so that would be about 20%

and since 4 x 4 is 16, my guess is that 16 is 80% of 20

Answer 2

Answer: 80%

Step-by-step explanation: To answer the question what percent of 20 is 16, we translate the question into an equation.

So we have "what percent" that's x, "of 20" means times 20, "is 16" = 16. So now we have the equation (x)(20) = 16.

Now to solve for x, since x is being multiplied by 20, we need to divide by 20 on both sides of the equation. On the left side of the equation the 20's cancel and we have x and on the right side of the equation we have 16 divided by 20 which is 0.8.

Now, remember that we want to write our answer as a percent so we need to convert 0.8 into a percent.

We can convert a decimal into a percent by moving the decimal point two places to the right so we can change 0.8 to a percent by simply moving the decimal point two places to the right and we have 80%.

This means that 80% of 20 is 16.