Question

What is 1% of 200?

Answer 1

"Percent" or "%" means "out of 100" or "per 100", Therefore 1% can be written as `1/100`.

When dealing with percents the word "of" means "times" or "to multiply".

Now, let's call the number we are taking the percent of `n`.

Let's also call our answer `a`.

Putting this altogether we can write this equation and solve for `n` while keeping the equation balanced:

`a = 1/100 xx n`

`a = (1 xx n)/100`

For this example because we are working with `1%` we can further simplify to:

`a = n/100`

So, if we were looking for `1%` of 200 it would be:

`a = 1/100 xx 200`

`a = (1 xx 200)/100`

`a = 200/100`

`a = 2`

Therefore `2` is 1% of 200.