What is 45 percent of of 500 dollars?

Answer 1

The answer is $225 . To compute this in your head, think that 45% is 5% less than 50%

which is 1/2. half of 500 is 250. Now 5% is half of 10% which is easily computed.

10% of 500 is 50 , so 5% is 25. 250 - 25 yields the answer. .