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How Do You Use an Equation to Find a Part of a Whole?

What is 8% of 54?

Summary

  1. To convert a percent to a decimal, drop the percent sign and move the decimal two places to the left
  2. So 8% becomes 0.08
  3. Multiply 0.08•54 to get 8% of 54
  4. 4.32 is 8% of 54

Notes

    1. Since we can't work with percents, we need to convert 8% to a decimal
    1. Since 8 is a whole number, the decimal point comes immediately after the number
    2. So moving it two places to the left gives us 0.08
    1. 0.08 is the same as 8%
    2. So we can use 0.08 instead of 8% when we solve our problem
    1. So we will need to multiply 0.08 by 54
    1. This will give us 8% of 54
    1. Multiplying 0.08 by 54 will give us 8% of 54
    1. So 4.32 is 8% of 54