Solving percentage problems |
To crack a problem like this, you put the part (in this case 4) on top of a whole. In other words you are dividing 4 by 24 and then multiply your answer by 100. Let us look at the demonstration of how this works : 4/24 x 100 1/8 x 100 0.125 x 100 12.5% A more difficult percentage problem |
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