What is 32% of 80?

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Answer 1 · 2016-11-11T21:04:13

32% of 80 is 25.6

Let's call the number we are looking for $x$ .

Percent or $%$ means "per 100" or "out of 100" so $32%$ can also be written as $32/100$

In the problem above, when calculating percents, the word "of" means the product or times or $xx$ .

So we can write an equation for the solution we are trying to find as"

$x = (32/100) xx 80$

Doing the necessary arithmetic allows us to solve for $x$ as follows:

$x = (32 xx 80)/100$

$x = 2560/100$

$x = 25.6$