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hello everyone i have been working 15 days straight 15 hr shifts (thanks to the Army) but  im reviewing over some basic math for my TABE test, and i have an complete BRAIN FART its quite a simple problem but i just dont remeber how i got the answer, if someone can break this answer down for me i would truly appreciate it.    (14 is what % of 35) and (16 is what % 20) if possible could you break it down step by step. yes i know the problem is simple but i just cant think right now,          THANKS THANKS THANKS A BUNCH

   Usually, there's more than one way to solve arithmetic and math problems.

   The following may be easier to work with and remember:

   14/35  =   .4 , but since you want percent, you must multiply .4 times 100, which equals 40%.

   Yet more briefly,

   16/20  =   .8

   .8 X 100  =  80%

   Still more briefly,

   16/20 X 100  =  80%

   Textbooks rarely explain that percentage means "parts per hundred," and that percentage is a conversion--it converts a fraction, decimal, or another number to parts per hundred.

   Supposedly, it's easier for us to understand parts per hundred than the equivelant decimal, fraction, or number.

   What's your opinion? I believe most of us are pretty comfortable with the idea that, for instance, 16 is only part of 20, and we can represent that portion as a decimal,  .8 , or that 20 is one part of 20, and we can represent that portion as 1.