SOLUTION: What percent of 100 is 20?
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Question 443069: What percent of 100 is 20?
Answer by angelagallegos(8) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
the easiest way to solve this problem, is to set it up as a proportion.
is/of equals %/100.
1) you want to find out the %, this will be your x.
2) the of will be 100, and the is will be 20.
3) set you your proportion equal to each other.
20 = x
________
100 100
4) cross multiply 100x = 2000
5) get x by itself, divide both sides by 100
6) this will leave x = 2
7) your answer will be 2%
I hope that this helps
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