What percentage is 15000 out of 86000?

Answer 1

First convert to a decimal ie:-

15000/86000 = 0.1744 (to 4 decimal places will give percentage to 2 decimal places but actually is an arbitrary choice)

multiply by 100 to convert from decimal to percentage

0.174419 x 100 = 17.44 % (to 2 decimal places)

Answer 2

15000/86000 X 100 +.

Cancel down by '1000'

Hence

15/86 x 100 =>

Cancel down by '2'

15/43 x 50 =>

750/43 =>

17.44% ) 2 d.p.)