4$ is what percent of 50$ ?

Mathematics · Middle School · Tue Nov 03 2020

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In order to find out what percent of 50$ is, what we can is that we can create a ratio that will help us find this unknown percentage. Lets call it X the unknown value. We know that the 100% of every number, is the number itself. In our case 100% of 50$ is 50$. Based on that, we can create the ratio we need:

If 50$ is 100%

Then 4$ is X%

If we cross multiply, we will have 50 times x equal to 4 times 100.

50x = 4*100

50x = 400

Divide both sides with 50.

50x/50 = 400/50

x=8%