I know that this is an easy question but I need to solidify the mechanical processes correctly for answering these types of percent questions.
For every other question similar to this one, I simply multiplied by the number by the percent multiple.
Example: What number is 25% greater than 40? I multiplied 40 by 1.25 and got 50.
What number is 6% greater than 200? I multipled 200 by 1.06 and got 212.
What number is 90% less than 180? I multiplied 180 by .1 and got 18.
As I was working on this question, I knew that multiplying 1.5 times 3 would yied 4.5 and that this did not make sense since 100% of 3 is 6. However, I cannot pinpoint why multiplying the 3 by the multiple 1.5 does not work in this case? Or is it simple coincidence that the multiple method worked in all other problems?
Please help!
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For every other question similar to this one, I simply multiplied by the number by the percent multiple.
Example: What number is 25% greater than 40? I multiplied 40 by 1.25 and got 50.
What number is 6% greater than 200? I multipled 200 by 1.06 and got 212.
What number is 90% less than 180? I multiplied 180 by .1 and got 18.
As I was working on this question, I knew that multiplying 1.5 times 3 would yied 4.5 and that this did not make sense since 100% of 3 is 6. However, I cannot pinpoint why multiplying the 3 by the multiple 1.5 does not work in this case? Or is it simple coincidence that the multiple method worked in all other problems?
Please help!
Thanks!