What 5 percent of 4658?

Answer 1

232.9

If you want the workings here they are:

There are several ways to work out percentages, and depending on whether you have a calculator or not, you can choose different methods.

With a calculator:

The easiest way is to firstly convert your percentage into a decimal - you can do this by dividing the percentage by 100. In this case you divide 5 by 100 to get 0.05.

After finding the decimal, all you have to do, is multiply this with the number you want to find the percent of, in this case it is 4658.

So you would type into your calculator (or work out by hand) 0.05 x 4658 which is equal to 232.9.

Without a calculator:

Here, the most commonly used method is by finding different percentages and scaling down. For example you know that 100% is 4658, so firstly find 10%.

You can do this by dividing by 10, so you would get (4658/10) 465.8

Because you want to find 5% you can then scale 10% down by dividing by 2 (10/2=5).

Remember that you must do the same to each side, so when you have

465.8 = 10%

you divide BOTH sides by two:

465.8/2 = 10/2

232.9 = 5%

I hope this helped :)