To find a certain percent of a number, all you have to do is follow two easy steps: 1) Convert the percentage into decimal for by moving the decimal two places to the left. In this case, 90.0% becomes 0.90. 2) Multiply the decimal number by the other number. In this case, 0.90 X 30 = 27. However, you could have done this particular problem in an even easier way. You know that 10% of 30 is three, because you can find 10% of any number by just moving the decimal one place to the left. Therefore, to get 90% of 30 all you have to do is subtract 3 from it, which gets you the correct answer of 27.
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