What is 20% of 46.60?

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What is 20% of 46.60?

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Answer 1 · 2018-06-21T09:54:16

$9.32$ $9.32$

Explanation:

As a generic approach, a percentage is always a ratio. $x %$ $x%$ simply means $\frac{x}{100}$ $x/100$ .

So, if you want to compute the $x %$ $x%$ of a certain number $n$ $n$ , you only need to multiply $n$ $n$ and $\frac{x}{100}$ $x/100$ , obtaining

$\frac{n x}{100}$ $(nx)/100$ .

So, you may say that the $20 %$ $20%$ of $46.60$ $46.60$ is

$\frac{46.60 \cdot 20}{100}$ $\frac{46.60*20}{100}$

However, some percentages are "easy", in the sense that they can be easily computed. For example, $50 %$ $50%$ is a half, so instead of multiplying by $\frac{50}{100}$ $50/100$ , you can simply divide by $2$ $2$ .

By the same logic, you have $\frac{20}{100} = \frac{1}{5}$ $20/100 =1/5$ , which means that the $20 %$ $20%$ of something is one fifth of that something. So, it might be easier to compute

$\frac{46.60}{5} = 9.32$ $46.60/5=9.32$

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