Question

shop has 500 items out of which 5 are detective find the percent of defective item

Answer 1

100th is the percentage 0f 5 detective items it's 5/500×100 1% is your answer

Answer 2

Total number of items = 500
No . of defective items = 5

So, the percent of defective items 
= 5 / 500 * 100 %
= 1 %
∴ 1 % of the total items in the shop are defective.