Question

Recall that you can solve a percent problem by translating the words into an equation where the percent is written as a decimal.
Example:
What percent of 20 is 5?
Translates as 5 = 20x
x = 0.25, or 25%
Example:
What is 40% of 20?
Translates as x = 0.4(20)
x = 8
% of 630 is 189.

Answer 1

Answer:

Recall that you can solve a percent problem by translating the words into an equation where the percent is written as a decimal. Example: What percent of 20 is 5? Translates as 5 = 20x x = 0.25, or 25\% Example: What is 40\% of 20? Translates as x = 0.4(20) x = 8 \% of 630 is 189.