Calculate Percentage: Converting 200 out of 50 to Percent Form

Question

What is of 200 out of 50 written as a percentage?

00:00 What percentage is 200 out of 50?

00:04 Let's use the formula to calculate the percentage of one number from another

00:09 Divide one number by another and multiply by 100

00:14 Let's break down 200 into factors of 50 and 4

00:24 Let's simplify what we can

00:30 And this is the solution to the question

Write the numbers in the form of a fraction:

$\frac{200}{50}$

Now we multiply by 100 to find out the percentage:

$\frac{200}{50}\times100=$

Keep in mind that 200 can be broken down into an exercise:

$50\times4$

That is:

$\frac{50\times4}{50}\times100=$

We simplify the two 50s in the fraction and obtain:

$4\times100=400$

400%