People around me are confusing me. They always mistaken the percentage and percent! I know its different.
How do I solve a word problem for finding the PERCENTAGE?
Is it:
1. Divide
2. Multiply by 100
How about finding the percent?
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Answerer 1
They are grammatically different. Percentage is noun while Percent is an adverb. In your case, you’re dealing with word problems but i can’t tell what kind of word problem you’re into. Usually in word problems, you’ll get to find the Percent not the Percentage esp. with rates. I don’t know what exactly your problem is but let me give you an example:
For example you get to calculate a basketball player’s field goal percentage:
let’s say he was 4 out of 5 or 4/5. So if you divide 4 by 5 you’ll get 0.8 and then multiply by 100 or simply just move 2 decimal places to the right. And there you go, he’s got 80% field goal percentage. And, BTW, in finding percent well just change your sentence. Make it “He’s 80 percent of field goals”.
Source(s):
the great grey matter(brain) & my basketball IQ.lol