How do you find 40% of 5000 ?

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Answer 1 · 2015-10-20T10:06:38

$40%$ of $5000$ is $2000$

40% of 5000 is 40/100 of 5000 is $40/100*5000=40*50=2000$

Answer 2 · 2015-10-20T10:16:45

2000
Detailed method given.

Percent is another way of writing a fraction. But for percent the denominator is fixed at 100. So $40% -> 40/100$

The 'per' in percent means 'for each'.
The 'cent' in percent means '100'.

So 40% means that you have 40 for every 100 of something.

Thus from your question we have:

$40/100 times 5000$

$40/100 times 5000$ is the same as $40 times 5000/100$

A trick I sometimes use to calculate this type of thing in my head is:

$40 = 4 times 10$
$50 = 5 times 10$

so $" " 40 times 50 = 4 times 5 times 10 times 10$

giving: $" " 20 times 100 =2000$