Question

What number is $15\%$ of $60$ ?

Answer 1

Hint: In mathematics, a percentage is a number or ratio expressed as a fraction of $100$. The word 'percent' means out of $100$ or per $100$. Therefore, to find the number that is $15\%$ of $60$ we will have to use the unitary method. Hence, we can take this as if we are taking the number $15$ out of $100$ then what number can be taken out of $60$. Thus, this will give us the number which will be the amount which is $15\%$ of $60$.

Complete step-by-step solution:
In the given problem we have to find the amount or the number that is $15\%$ of $60$.
To get the desired amount we have chosen to go by the unitary method.
In the unitary method we first define the condition that is already known to us and from that condition we find the value for the unit or $1$ . Thus, we find the value that is desired from the previous results.
To understand this in a better way we can make the primary statement as
From $100$ we can take the number $15$ .
Therefore, from $1$ we can take the number $\dfrac{15}{100}$ .
Now, if we take the number $60$ we get the value $\dfrac{15}{100}\times 60$ .
After simplifying this further we get
$=\dfrac{15}{10}\times 6$
$=9$
Therefore, we conclude that $9$ is $15\%$ of $60$.

Note: Besides the unitary method this type of problems can also be done with the help of using a direct formula which will give the amount of percentage of a given number. We can directly get the answer from $x\times \dfrac{y}{100}$ , where $x$ is the given number and $y$ is the percentage of $x$ . For our case we get $60\times \dfrac{15}{100}=9$.