What percent is it?
You learn to work out what percentage something is, like 12 out of 48.
How to work it out
- Write the part above the line and the whole below it.
- Simplify the fraction if you can.
- Make it hundredths: multiply the top and the bottom by the same number.
- Read the percentage: the number over 100.
48
12
100
25
15 out of 60 = ?%
- Write it as a fraction: 1560.
- Simplify it: 1560 = 14.
- Multiply the top and the bottom by 25: 14 = 25100.
- It is 25%.
60
15
100
25
More examples
8 out of 40 = ?%
- Write it as a fraction: 840.
- Simplify it: 840 = 15.
- Multiply the top and the bottom by 20: 15 = 20100.
- It is 20%.
40
8
100
20
18 out of 24 = ?%
- Write it as a fraction: 1824.
- Divide the top and the bottom by 6: 1824 = 34.
- Multiply the top and the bottom by 25: 34 = 75100.
- It is 75%.
24
6
18
100
25
75