SOLUTION: whats 50% of 120

Question 79247: whats 50% of 120
Found 2 solutions by DoubleG, tutorcecilia:
Answer by DoubleG(2) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
50% of 120 is HALF of 120. So you can either do 120/2, or 120 times (.5). The answer is 60.
Answer by tutorcecilia(2152) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
50% of 120 [translate into math terms]
.50 x 120 [change the percent to a decimal by moving the decimal over two places to the left (50% = 50.00% = .50); translate "of" into multiplication]
.
Answer=60
.
checking:
60/120=.5 x 100% = 50% [checks out]
.

RELATED QUESTIONS
Whats the percent of 9 17/50 (answered by rfer)
whats the square root of 10,000 times 2 times... (answered by checkley77)
whats the answer to the square root of... (answered by Fombitz)
i got 50 correct out of 70 whats my grade? (answered by stanbon)
if i need 85% to get an A out of 120 questions whats my answer? (answered by Tatiana_Stebko,umail08)
whats the answer to the square root of -25 divided by square root of... (answered by checkley77)
twenty copies of the school yearbook together weigh 50 lb. whats the weight of each... (answered by solver91311)
8^-x/50=2 whats the solution of this exponential... (answered by Fombitz,Alan3354,Cromlix)
whats the sum of the first 50 terms... (answered by Fombitz,ikleyn)