Question

How do you find 40% of 5000 ?

Answer 1

`40%` of `5000` is `2000`

Explanation:

40% of 5000 is 40/100 of 5000 is `40/100*5000=40*50=2000`

Answer 2

2000
Detailed method given.

Explanation:

Percent is another way of writing a fraction. But for percent the denominator is fixed at 100. So `40% -> 40/100`

The 'per' in percent means 'for each'.
The 'cent' in percent means '100'.

So 40% means that you have 40 for every 100 of something.

Thus from your question we have:

`40/100 times 5000`

`40/100 times 5000` is the same as `40 times 5000/100`

A trick I sometimes use to calculate this type of thing in my head is:

`40 = 4 times 10`
`50 = 5 times 10`

so `" " 40 times 50 = 4 times 5 times 10 times 10`

giving: `" " 20 times 100 =2000`