Percentages Question???

Question

I'm having trouble figuring out percentages.

How do you do this:

31,000,000 is what percent of 4,037,000,000?

Answer 1

Divide 31,000,000 by 4,037,000,000 and then multiply the result by 100, that will give you the percentage. The answer is 0.77% (rounded to two decimals).

Answer 2

Think of it like 31,000,000 divided by 4,037,000,000....this is the ratio

= 0.00768

multiply this by 100 to get the percentage

0.768 %

Answer 3

Piece of cake...grab a calculator.

31,000,000/4,037,000,000=0.00767896953...

Move the decimal two places to the right to get percentage...

The answer is 0.768%. (to three decimal points)