Equivalent Percentage

Percentage is a number represents fraction of 100. In percentage, numerator is any number but denominator is only 100. So that it is called as Percentage. We can denote percentage of a number by using symbol %.

Example of Percentage: `50/100` (or) 50%

Equivalent percentage is a percentage for equivalent fraction or decimal.

In this article, we shall see about how to find equivalent percentage for given values.
Example Problems – Equivalent Percentage:

Problem 1:

What is the equivalent percentage of 5 out of 10.

Solution:

Step 1:

First, we divide numerator by denominator.

So `5/10` = 0.5

Step 2:

Multiply and divide the above decimal value by 100.

 `(0.5*100)/100`

Step 3:

So we get, `50/100` is equal to 50%.

Answer:

Equivalent percentage of `5/6` is 50%.

Problem 2:

What is the equivalent percentage of 6 out of 8.

Solution:

Step 1:

First, we divide numerator by denominator.

So `6/8` = 0.75

Step 2:

Multiply and divide the above decimal value by 100.

 `(0.75*100)/100`

Step 3:

So we get, `75/100` is equal to 75%.

Answer:

Equivalent percentage of `6/8` is 75%.

Problem 3:

What is the equivalent percentage of fraction `4/5` .

Solution:

Step 1:

First, we divide numerator by denominator.

So `4/5` = 0.8

Step 2:


Multiply and divide the above decimal value by 100.

`(0.8*100)/100 `

Step 3:

So we get, `80/100` is equal to 80%.

Answer:

Equivalent percentage of `4/5` is 80%.

Problem 4:

What is the equivalent percentage of 0.06?

Solution:

Multiply and divide the given decimal value by 100

`(0.06*100)/100 `

So we get, `6/100` is equal to 6%.

Answer:

Equivalent percentage of 0.06 is 6%.

Problem 5:

What is the equivalent percentage of 0.25?

Solution:

Multiply and divide the given decimal value by 100

`(0.25*100)/100 `

So we get, `25/100` is equal to 25%.

Answer:

Equivalent percentage of 0.25 is 25%.
Practice Problems: Equivalent Percentage

Problem 1:

What is the equivalent percentage of `8/5` ?

Answer:

160%

 Problem 2:

What is the equivalent percentage of `10/1000` ?

Answer:

1%

Problem 3:

What is the equivalent percentage of 0.81?

Answer:

81%

Problem 4:

What is the equivalent percentage of 0.025?

Answer:

2.5%