What percent of 7y is 119?
1 Answer
A bit of teaching about percentages given as you used that word.
Suppose you mean: given that
The answer to this is
Explanation:
Let me demonstrate by example:
Have a bag of sweets that contains a total of 50 sweets.
From that 50 we select 3 sweets. Then as a fraction of the whole we have
Percentage is just a fraction but a special one. What makes it special is that the bottom number is always 100.
So percentage in fraction format is
Lets convert our
We need to make the bottom number become 100.
If you multiply by 1 you do not change the value. However, 1 comes in many forms.
We now have our percentage as a fraction.
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This is the same as
We need to get
We can turn the 7 into 1. Divide both sides of the = by
But