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Example Question #1 : How To Find Fractional Percentages
Rewrite as a fraction in lowest terms.
%
Cross-cancel by dividing 64 and 100 by 4:
,
which is the fraction we want.
Example Question #2 : How To Find Fractional Percentages
What is of
?
of
can be calculated as follows.
First, we need to convert into a fraction that we can use in calculations. The percentage symbol tells us that the value is divided by
.
Now we can multiply our given value by this fraction to find our answer.
Example Question #3 : How To Find Fractional Percentages
What is % of
?
Set up a proportion statement:
Cross-multiply and solve for :
Example Question #4 : How To Find Fractional Percentages
is what percent of
?
%
%
%
%
%
%
Set up a proportion statement:
Simplify the right side and solve for :
Example Question #1 : How To Find Fractional Percentages
What percent of 0.6 is 0.0003?
0.02 %
2 %
0.05 %
0.5 %
0.002 %
0.05 %
Let be the percent. Then
Example Question #6 : How To Find Fractional Percentages
What is % of
?
Set up the proportion statement:
Cross-multply and solve for :
Example Question #7 : How To Find Fractional Percentages
What is % of
?
Set up the proportion statement:
Cross-multply and solve for :
Example Question #8 : How To Find Fractional Percentages
What is of
?
Set up a proportion:
Cross-multiply and solve for :
Example Question #9 : How To Find Fractional Percentages
What is of
?
There are a few ways we can approach this problem. We know that is
, or
.
We also know that for percentages, "of" means multiply, so we can set up a multiplication problem:
Simplifying gives
.
Example Question #10 : How To Find Fractional Percentages
What is of
?
Remember that the word "of" means multiply. One way to solve this is to first divide the percentage by 100.
This is the division of two fractions and can be done by multiplying the first fraction by the reciprocal of the second fraction. Remember to treat as the fraction
The multiplication should look like this
Now multiply across the numerator and denominator
Now that the fractional percentage has been converted to a regular fraction we can multiply this by the to get the answer
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