What is 1% of 200?

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Answer 1 · 2017-03-01T20:12:53

"Percent" or "%" means "out of 100" or "per 100", Therefore 1% can be written as $\frac{1}{100}$ $1/100$ .

When dealing with percents the word "of" means "times" or "to multiply".

Now, let's call the number we are taking the percent of $n$ $n$ .

Let's also call our answer $a$ $a$ .

Putting this altogether we can write this equation and solve for $n$ $n$ while keeping the equation balanced:

$a = \frac{1}{100} \times n$ $a = 1/100 xx n$

$a = \frac{1 \times n}{100}$ $a = (1 xx n)/100$

For this example because we are working with $1 %$ $1%$ we can further simplify to:

$a = \frac{n}{100}$ $a = n/100$

So, if we were looking for $1 %$ $1%$ of 200 it would be:

$a = \frac{1}{100} \times 200$ $a = 1/100 xx 200$

$a = \frac{1 \times 200}{100}$ $a = (1 xx 200)/100$

$a = \frac{200}{100}$ $a = 200/100$

$a = 2$ $a = 2$

Therefore $2$ $2$ is 1% of 200.