5 Percentages

The good news about percentages is if you can work out a fraction of an amount, you can work out a percentage of amount.

Figure _unit2.5.1 Figure 7 Percentage discounts in a sale

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A series of tags sequentially reading ‘Sale up to 10%, 15%, 20%, 25%, 30%, 40%, 50%’.

Figure 7 Percentage discounts in a sale

Percentages are just fractions where the number on the bottom of the fraction must be 100. If you wanted to find out 15% of 80 for example, you work out of 80, which you already know how to do!