What percent of 260 is 247?
1 Answer
Nov 10, 2016
95%
Explanation:
What percent of 260 is 247.
Let's call our unknown percentage
Recall that "of" means multiplication and "is" means equal to.
So, our equation can be written as
To write a decimal as a percent, move the decimal two places to the right or multiply by
Another way to think about the problem is to use the phrase
"is over of = percent over 100" or
is=247, of =260, x= %
Cross multiply...