September 15, 2009
No CommentsHow to Find a Percentage of Any Number
Description
A detailed tutorial on the finding of percentages of any number. Step by step tutorial including several examples of how to find percents for reference.
Overview
The knowledge of how to find percents isn’t just something you’ll find in the classroom. You’ll find it all over for the rest of your life – at home, at work, even at the grocery store. Finding percents is a very important skill. It can be very confusing to be faced with some percent of a number that isn’t 100. Thankfully, it is very easy to solve, with the help of cross-multiplication. Cross-multiplication is setting up two fractions and multiplying them in an x formation. One of your fractions will be the percent – a number over 100 – and the other fraction will be an unknown variable over the number you need to find the percent of. After using cross-multiplication, just solve for the unknown variable. The video provided shows a second method to solve percents with.
