Question

What is $60\%$ of 160?

Answer 1

Hint: To find $60\%$ of 160, we are going to first of all eliminate this percentage symbol by dividing 60 by 100. After dividing by 100 we are going to multiply this division by 160 and hence, we will get the value of $60\%$ of 160.

Complete step by step answer:
In the above problem, we are asked to find the value of $60\%$ of 160. Now, writing this statement $60\%$ of 160 we are going to multiply $60\%$ by 160 and we get,
$\left( 60\% \right)\times 160$
To solve the above expression, we are required to eliminate this percentage $\left( \% \right)$ symbol which we do by dividing 60 by 100 in the above expression without disturbing the other elements of the above expression.
$\dfrac{60}{100}\times 160$
The two zeros written in the numerator of the above fraction will get cancelled out with the two zeros written in the denominator of the above expression and we get,
$\dfrac{96}{1}$

From the above, we got the simplification to go $60\%$ of 160 as 96.

Note: In the above solution, you might see that in the expression $\dfrac{60}{100}\times 160$, we haven’t first divide 60 by 100 and then multiply the result of this division to 160 instead we do some arithmetic in this whole expression. The reason behind is that when we do the arithmetic in which the two zeros (one from 60 and other from 160) will get cancelled out with two zeros in the denominator and hence, will make the calculations easier.
Also, from this problem, we have learnt how to eliminate the percentage symbol. This trick can help you solve all the percentage questions quite easily.