Easy Trick To Mentally Calculate Percentages: Basic Percentage Review
Easy Trick To Mentally Calculate Percentages: Basic Percentage Review
Easy Trick To Mentally Calculate Percentages: Basic Percentage Review
Finding 10% of a number is one of the most useful and also one
of the easiest. To find 10% all we need to do is move/shift the
decimal one place to the left. Thus 10% of 543 = 54.3, pretty
simple!
100% is the easiest by far. The number does not change. So,
100% of 765 is the number itself i.e. is 765.
How 5% works. It’s just half of 10%. Simply 2 steps in any order
(1) Take 10% (2) Divide by 2. You can take 10% first or divide by
2 first, it does not matter. For example, 5% of 44 =? 10% of 44 is
4.4 and divide by 2 gives us 2.2. So, 5% of 44 =4.4. Again, 5% of
$24.80=? a) $24.80 -->> $2.48 (moving the decimal point one
place to the left) and b) $2.48 / 2 = $1.24.
Let’s try 97% of 195. 97% is probably broken down easiest into
100%-3%. 1% of 195 =1.95. Now multiply it by 3 to get 5.85. So
our final answer is 195-5.85=189.15
a% of b = b% of a
So 35% of 80 is 28.
As another example, suppose you want to find 12% of 31. Again, start
by changing the percent to a decimal and the word of to a
multiplication sign:
12% of 31 = 0.12 31
Now you can solve the problem with decimal multiplication:
So 12% of 31 is 3.72.