Question

By how much % is 2500 greater than 500?

Answer 1

Hint: The first step for solving the above question must be to find the amount by which 2500 is greater than 500, i.e., the difference between 2500 and 500. Once you get the amount of difference, divide it by 500 and multiply by 100 to get it converted to %. The result you get is your answer.

Complete step-by-step answer:
Let us start the solution to the above question by finding the amount by which 2500 is greater than 500, i.e., the difference between 2500 and 500. So, the amount by which 2500 is greater than 500 is equal to $2500-500=2000$ .
Now, we need to convert the result we got into percentage. We know that we need to convert it to percent with respect to 500, so we will divide 2000 by 500 and multiply the result by 100. On doing so, we get
 ${\displaystyle \frac{2000}{500}}\times 100=400\mathrm{\%}$
Therefore, we can conclude that 2500 is 400% greater than 500.

Note: Be very careful about what is asked in the question, as if it is asked by what percent is 2500 greater than 500 or what percent of 500 is equal to 2500. The answer to both the questions are different and can never be equal. It is also important that you should be very careful in the calculation part, as the only place where you can make mistakes is in the calculation part.