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How would you give 57p as a percentage of £1.20?

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Penelope Ryan


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So you would firstly need to check, are these 2 numbers in the same format? No, so how many pence would £1.20 be? 120p.

Now we need to find out what percentage 57p is of 120p. So 57p out of 120p, can be written like a fraction 57/120. Once you have done 57 divided by 120 to find the percentage you multiply your answer by 100!

57 / 120 = 0.475 then 0.475 x 100= 47.5%

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Lauren Cook

Firstly you just need to convert so they’re the same units (both pence) so you’re now dealing with 57p and 120p.


Now just divide them so it’s 57 / 120 = 0.475


But because you wanted a percentage, that just means you need to multiply that answer by 100


0.475 x 100 = 47.5%

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Joyal Shajan

Percentage comes from "per cent" meaning out of hundred.

So you want the answer as a number less than hundred.

1) you first change the numbers into the same unit (pence) so £1.20 becomes 120p

2) you put the numbers into a fraction as 57/120

3) this gives you 0.475

4) to change this into a percentage, the final step is to multiply by 100 to give 47.5%

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Lavanya Dinesh

57/120= 0.475

0.475*100 = 47.5%

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Mohammed Shalim Hussain

57p divided by 120p (£1.20) will give you the answer in decimals which is 0.457, multiply by 100 for the answer in percentage: (57/120) x 100 = 47.5%

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Hi Miss Penelope Ryan,

Lets start by thinking of what a percentage is? A percentage can be though of as a portion of an amount. If we have 100% of an amount then we have the full amount. For example if we have 100% of a pizza then all the pizza is ours. If we have 50% of a pizza then we have half the pizza because 50 is half of 100. We can use this concept to solve the question

Here is a series of steps I would use to find the percentage:

  1. Multiply £1.20 by 100 (explanation: this will give us the amount in pence). 120pence is what we will get.
  2. 57/120 will give us a decimal which can be converted to a % in a next step
  3. I will multiply 57/120 by 100 which will give us 47.5%

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Samreen Manaf

£1.20= 120p

hence 57p = 47.5% of £1.20 as 57/120 X100= 47.5%

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Kushal

Do 57/1.20 which is 47.5%

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Answer: 47.5%


Explanation:

First of all, you need to change either of the numbers to the same unit, you can either do this by converting:


57p to £0.57

or

£1.20 to 120p.


Now we can divide the smaller number by the bigger number to receive an answer of 0.475.

Following this, we need to convert this decimal into a percentage and we can do this by multiplying by 100 and thus we get an answer of 47.5%

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convert the £1.20 into pence, so both items are pence. Then either do long division and divide 120 into 57 or on a calculator do 57/120 and then x 100 to make it a %

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(57/120) x 100 = 47.5%

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Nahid Abdin

You would do 0.57/1.20 which will give you 0.475.


you’d then times that by 100 to give you 47.5%.

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You need to convert both amounts into either pounds or pence. I will choose pence and then divide 57p by 120p and multiply the answer by 100.

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Haleema Saffa

57/120 *100 = 47.5%

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Hi Penelope! Firstly, you can transform £1.20 into pence, which would be 120p. It is important that they are measured in the unit, i.e. both in pence or both in pounds. Then, you would simply divide 57 by 120 and multiply this by 100. This gives you = (57/120)*100 = 47.5%.

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