What percent of $90 is $9?

2 Answers
Jun 12, 2018

10%

Explanation:

If $90 is 100%, then $9 would be 10%.

This is because:

$90 is 100% because this is the total.
$9 is x%

You can see that the $9 is a tenth of the total value of $90, i.e:

$90$10=$9

Therefore, the fraction of 110 is equivalent to 0.1 and this is the decimal representation of the percentage of 10%.

Jun 12, 2018

10%

Explanation:

To determine what percentage one quantity is of another you can use the method:

fraction×100%

IN this case:

990×100%

=110×100%

=10%