What percent of 6y is 24?

3 Answers
Feb 27, 2018

All real percents.

Explanation:

This is because dividing by 6 on both sides means that the question is asking you what percent of y is 4. 4 could be any number at all, meaning that this problem has an answer of all real percents.

Feb 27, 2018

(6y)/24 xx100 %

As y is not known a specific value can not be calculated.

Feb 27, 2018

I am guessing you mean:

Given that 6y=24 what is the value of y

y=4

Explanation:

See my solution https://socratic.org/s/aNMtTj62
where I have explained what percentage is.

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Given: 6y=24

We need to get rid of the 6 from 6y. We can do this by changing it to 1 as 1xxy is just y

Divide both sides of the = by color(red)(6)

color(green)(6y=24color(white)("dddd")->color(white)("dddd")6/color(red)(6)y=24/color(red)(6))

but 6/6=1

color(green)(color(white)("dddddddddd")->color(white)("dddd")1xxy=4

color(green)(color(white)("dddddddddd")->color(white)("ddddddd")y=4