Percent of a Number

07-Percent of a Number

Finding percent of a number combines two skills that we already know: converting a percent to a decimal and multiplying decimals.

If we want to take the problem, as below:

37% of 51

The first step is to convert the percent to a decimal.  The second step is to think of the of as multiply, so:

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