Question

What is 40% of 24?

Answer 1

Hint: For solving this type of questions you should know about the calculating the percentage of something. And also know how to calculate any value whose percentage is given to us. And it is calculated by a formula which is used to convert the percentage from any value. The general formula is, percentage (%) = $\dfrac{\text{value}}{\text{total value}}\times 100$.

Complete step by step answer:
According to our question we have to calculate the value of 40% of 24. So, here the percentage is 40, total value is 24 and the value is the unknown that we have to find. The percentage is the amount of something in terms of 100. And we can say that the percent means per hundred. It means what the value or amount is at every $\text{hundredt}{{\text{h}}^{th}}$. Thus, we can calculate the percentage of any number and the number and the total value of that by a single formula. So, applying the same we can write it as,
$40=\dfrac{\text{value}}{24}\times 100$
Multiplying both sides by 24, we get,
$\begin{align}
  & 24\times 40=\text{value}\times 100 \\
 & \Rightarrow 960=\text{value}\times 100 \\
\end{align}$
BY dividing both the sides by 100, we get,
$\begin{align}
  & \dfrac{960}{100}=\dfrac{\text{value}\times 100}{100} \\
 & \Rightarrow 9.6=\text{value} \\
\end{align}$

So, the value of 40% of 24 is 9.6

Note: The percentage is a very basic calculation and it is used at every or most of the calculations, so we should know how to calculate this. The percentage denotes how much of any value is available or contains in the 100 of the value for which the percentage is going to be calculated. In mathematics the percentage is a number or a ratio that represents a fraction of 100.