Converting to a Decimal. As a fraction 10200 005. If you need to find 16 of 1400 you first convert the percentage 16 to its decimal form.
10 150 Y becomes 010 150 Y.
To support free math by tecmath onPatreon thankyou. Always convert the percentages to decimals. And since cent here means 100 as in century we see that the word percent just means per 100 In other words 10 means 10 per 100 which is the same as the fraction 10100 or 110. A percentage is a way to express a number as a part of a whole.