Question

There are groups of $50$ people who are patriotic out of which $40\% $ believe in non-violence. Find the number of persons who believe in non-violence. Explain the importance of non-violence in patriotism.

Answer 1

Hint: Percent or percentage is used in mathematics as the number or ratio which is expressed as fraction of hundredth. And this is followed by the sign ‘%’. Percentage has no dimension. Hence it is called dimensionless. Every percentage variable has three possible unknown variables: percentage, part, base.

Complete step-by-step solution:
Given,
Total number of members in group $ = 50$
Member believe in non-violence $ = 40\% $
Number of people believe in non-violence =?
\[ \Rightarrow \text{Percentage} = \dfrac{\text{Non-violence member}}{\text{Total member}} \times 100\]
Put the value
 $ \Rightarrow 40 = \dfrac{\text{non - violence member}}{{50}} \times 100$
Simplify
$ \Rightarrow \text{non - violence member} = \dfrac{{40}}{2}$
$ \Rightarrow \text{non - violence member} = 20$
Total number of non-violence member are $20$
Importance of non-violence in patriotism: Non-violence is the greatest force at the disposal of mankind. It is the mightiest weapon achieved by humanity. Non-violence is the practice of being harmless self and other at any condition. It is important to make the world a greater place to live.

Note: Percentage is widely used in profit and loss. It is also used to show that statistics data to increase or decrease in data by how much percentage. The percentage function takes the form z is equal to the x percent of number y. Taking a percent can be viewed as the same operation as multiplication by a fraction.