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Calculating Percentage
Calculating Percentage
All Learners can calculate a given percentage of a quantity without using a calculator.
We all use Percentage in our common conversation. For example 40% of the students in class are
girls. Does that mean there are 40 girls? No it doesn’t, What is means is I first need to see how many
students are there in class. Let us consider a class of 30 students.
40 x 30
100
This is equal to 40 x 30 = 1200 divided by 100 which is 12.
We have without much difficulty found out that there are 12 girls in the class.
If 40 % are girls it also means that 60% are boys . Now let us do the same thing to find the number of
boys.
60 x 30
100
This is equal to 60 x 30 = 1800 divided by 100 which is 18.
We have without much difficulty found out that there are 18 boys in the class.
Which means we know that there are 12 girls and 18 boys in this particular class.
40 x 20
100
This is equal to 40 x 20 = 800 divided by 100 which is 8.
We have without much difficulty found out that there are 8 girls in the class.
If 40 % are girls it also means that 60% are boys. Now let us do the same thing to find the number of
boys.
60 x 20
100
This is equal to 60 x 20 = 1200 divided by 100 which is 12.
We have without much difficulty found out that there are 12 boys in the class.
Which means we know that there are 8 girls and 12 boys in this particular class.
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