Calculate the Percentage: Finding What Percent 36 is of 144

Question

Calculate 36 over 144 as a percentage:

00:00 What percentage is 36 out of 144?

00:05 Let's use the formula for calculating the percentage of one number from another

00:10 Divide one number by another and multiply by 100

00:15 Let's break down 144 into factors 36 and 4

00:21 Let's reduce what we can

00:27 And this is the solution to the question

Let's write the numbers as fractions:

$\frac{36}{144}$

Now let's multiply by 100 to reveal the percentage:

$\frac{36}{144}\times100=$

Let's note that we can break down 144 into the following expression:

$36\times4$

In other words:

$\frac{36}{36\times4}\times100=$

We can simplify the two 36s in the fraction and get:

$\frac{100}{4}=25$

25%