How would you find 110% of 500Kg?

I would break this question into two sections.

First finding 100% of 500kg to be 500kg.

Then finding the additional 10% of 500kg. An easy way to find 10% of any number is to divide the number by 10 (note this does not work with every percentage value). Therefore 10% of 500 is 50.

Finally add up to two values of 500 and 50 to get an answer of 550kg.

Hope this helps :))

The Crazy Decimal Rule!

With any number, you can write it with a decimal point and as many zeros as you like afterwards.

Let's look at this in action:

6 can be written as 6.0 or 6.00 or 6.000

50 can be written as 50.0 or 50.00 or 50.0000

25 can be written as 25.0 or 25.0000 or 25.000000000000000000000! (Ahhh!)

Try and see how many ways you can write the number 40 in 1 minute!

Remember this crazy decimal rule as it will help us when finding 10% of something.

The 10% rule

The rule with 10% of a number is you shift the decimal point to the left once. So 50.0 becomes 5.00 or just 5. 500.0 becomes 50.00 or just 50. 6000 becomes 600.0 or just 600. So 10% of 500kg is 50.0 kg or just 50kg. We've moved the decimal to the left once.

The 100% rule

You know when you're playing a game and it says 100% complete. It's the same with numbers. 100% of a 5 is 5. 100% of 60 is 60. When it's 100% of number think of it as being complete. Therefore 100% of 500kg is 500kg. Easy!

What about 110% then?

We're looking for 110% which of course is 100% + 10%.

We know 10% of 500kg is 50 kg. We know 100% of 500kg is 500kg. So let's add them together. 50kg + 500kg is 550kg.

110% of 500kg is 550kg.

Bish! Bash! Bosh! Done! :D

500=100% and 10% of 500 is 50kg so 110% of 500kg will be 500+50= 550KG

Please see the explanation below:

Find 10% of 500 Kg.

This is easy, it involves dividing the 500 Kg by 10, which gives you 50.

Then add the 50 onto 500 Kg to give you 550 Kg. This is equal to 110% of 500 Kg.

500%10=50kg (10%)

50x11=550kgs(110%)

To find the 110% of 500kg. We must first know that 110% is just equal to 1.10 if converted to its number form.

So out question now becomes what is 1.10 of 500kg. Which is just 500kg x 1.10 and it is equal to 500(1.10) = 550.

Therefore the 110% of 500kg is 550kg.

Whenever you're given an amount in a question that amount is always a representation of 100%, unless otherwise stated. Therefore we know 500kg is 100% and we only need 10% of 500 added on.

There are actually a few different ways of doing this and all are fairly straight forward.

1) Work out 10% of 500 and add it on to the original 500:

A shortcut for 10% of ANY number is just that number divided by 10.

So 10% of 500 is 500 divided by 10 which = 50

Therefore 110% of 500 is 500 + 50 = 550 (in percentage that correlates to 100% + 10% = 110%)

2) Another method which requires a slightly deeper understanding of percentages, but can ultimately be a lot quicker, especially in calculator questions, is using a 'multiplier' to get directly to your answer.

A multiplier is just a fancy word referring to a number you need to multiply your original value by to get directly to your answer (in this case 500 is our original number)

To put it simply your multiplier is your percentage but in decimal form. To convert ANY percentage into a decimal you just divide the number by 100. In this case we do 110/100 = 1.1

So 1.1 is our multiplier.

All that's left to do now is 500 x 1.1 = 550

100% of 500Kg is 500

10% of 500Kg is 50

100% + 10% = 500 + 50

110% = 550

Hi Nicholas!

The best way to work this out, is to break in down into parts.

We have two parts here, 100% and 10%. As we know 100% of 500kg is just 500kg. That part is now done. Now we need to work out 10%. 10% is the same as one tenth of 500. So if we divide 500 by 10, this gives us 50. We now have 10% of 500. We simply add these two numbers together now, to get 550KG.

Hope this helps!

Seb