25% of 80
Today we'll find twenty-five percent of eighty. But first — what does percent even mean?
The word percent means 'per one hundred'. So twenty-five percent is twenty-five out of every one hundred.
We can write that as a fraction: twenty-five over one hundred.
Twenty-five over one hundred simplifies. Both numbers divide by twenty-five, leaving one-fourth.
Here's a whole, split into four equal parts.
We shade just one of those four parts. That shaded piece is one-fourth — and that's twenty-five percent.
As a decimal, one-fourth is zero point two five. Fraction, decimal, percent — three ways to say the same amount.
So to find twenty-five percent of eighty, we just need one-fourth of eighty.
Eighty split into four equal groups: eighty divided by four is twenty.
Twenty-five percent of eighty is twenty. Percent is just a rate per one hundred — once you know that, you can find a part of any whole!