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Equation Instructions:

First: Determine the Number that you need to find a percentage of

Second: Determine the percentage that you want to discover of the original number

(the results of this division will give you an answer that is a decimal point of some sort, it may be greater than 1 or less than 1)

Third: Multiply the Original Number by the desired Percentage

Boom, there you have it, that’s your answer!

The results of the three steps above in using the equation will be the Percent of the Original Number.

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Why is this concept Important?

What is it used for?

Discovering the percentage of a number allows us to determine a certain portion of that number.

For example:

Let’s say you own a store and sell an item for $100. You want to put this item on sale for 20% off.

This calculation: $100 * 20% = $20.

Here we can see that $20 is 20% of $100.

To discount this item we’d knock $20 off the price which would bring it down to $80.

Calculating 20% of 100 is easy, but it gets tougher when you have odd numbers.

That’s where this calculator comes in handy!

Here are some examples of tougher calculations this page makes easy:

• 25% of 324 is 81

• 42% of 27 is 11.34

• 82% of 114,589 is 93,962.98