Question

Solve : $1$ percent is how many marks?

Answer 1

Hint: In this question we ill first assume the total marks. Now we know that when we have to find the percentage of marks, we divide the total marks to the total maximum marks and then we multiply the result with $100$ . Here in this question, we have been given the percentage i.e. $1\% $. We will directly multiply this with the total marks. So here in this question, since the total marks is not mentioned we assume the total marks to be $100$ .

Complete step by step solution:
As we know that percentage means a number or ratio that is represented in the form of fractions of $100$ . It is denoted by the sign $\% $ .
Now in this question, we have to find that $1$ percent is how many marks.
It means that we have to calculate $1\% $ of total marks.
Now as we have assumed , let the total value be $100$.
So we can write the expression as $1\% $ of $100$ .
We know that the term ‘of’ means to multiply in mathematics.
So it can be written as $\dfrac{1}{{100}} \times 100$
It gives us a value of $1$ .
So $1\% $ of total marks is $1$ mark.
Hence the required answer is $1$ mark.
So, the correct answer is “ $1$ mark”.

Note: We should note that the basic formula of percentage is
 $\dfrac{{Actual\,value}}{{Total\,value}} \times 100$ .
We should know that the percentage has no dimensions. So if we say $50\% $ of a number, then it implies $50\% $ of the whole number.