Wednesday, August 25, 2010

How to do percentages

In math we learn how to do percentages or how to calculate percentages of any given value.

How to do percentages is widely used technique throughout the business world, Percentage is denoted with the sign %, for example 50% is read as fifty percentage that an also written as 50/100 or 0.50.

Example:

In a crowd containing 200 people and out of that only 50 are men.Find the percentage of men

Given that

Total number of men = 50

Total number of people = 200

Percentage of men = 50/200 = 1/4 = 0.25

= 0.25 x 100 = 25

There are 25% of men in a crowd.

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