What is 25% of 90?
1 Answer
25% of 90 is 22.5.
Explanation:
A percent is any number over 100, so 25% is 25 over 100, this means that 25% can be written as:
Now, any number in fractional form (a number over a number) is the same as division so 25% can also be written as a decimal, we just move the decimal point 2 places to the right of 25, like this:
Now we have two ways that we can solve this problem! I'll start with the fractional method of solving.
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The Fractional Method
So we have a fraction:
and
so that means,
or
This means that we need four 25's to get 100.
or,
(we could also divide both numerator and denominator by 5 to get the same result:
Now that we know 25% is equal to
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The Decimal Method
As we found out above 25% equals 0.25 so we can solve this problem using decimals too! All we need to do is multiply 90 by 0.25, which gives us the same answer as above.
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Despite the fact that that mathematics seemed to be a lot more involved in the fractional method, the calculations were a lot easier and personally I found it to be faster than the decimal method. The decimal method is great when you're working with fractions that aren't equal to 100 (For example:
Sorry this is so long, I hope it helped though!