This is 1 way- 4/50=%/100 You now have a proportion. Cross multiply. 50%=400 Replace % with any variable. 50x=400 Now divide both sides of the equation by 50. x=8 (% is basically the percentage of 4 of 50 over 100. its much easier to solve percentage problems when the percentages are over 100. 100 represents a full percentage. example- 4 of 100 is 4% of 100)
2nd example- Since the percentage can be found if over 100 as well (%/100), and since 100 is a multiple of 50, we can do 4 of 50 (which would look like 4/50) and multiply both numbers by 2 to get the percentage. These are our steps:
