working out %

[MAXYMOO]

please could anyone tell me what 25% of£6000 please thanks

[Psybbo]

1500

[Fitzer]

Or £1500

[SJJ]

£1500

[Jonathan-Joe]

£ 1,500

[isitjustme]

http://www.percentagecalculator.net/

[ChuckFickens]

Or an even better calculator for working out a ¼ of 6....

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[boxtops]

It's a quarter - £1500

[MAXYMOO]

thanks to all of you

[factor-fiction]

Sorry maxymoo, I'm not trying to get at you here, but as Maths teacher it worries me that we teach children/young people every year in junior school and secondary school how to work out percentages and yet every year, when I get a new class, whether they are aged 11 or 16, students just seem to have no idea about percentages. Something is going wrong somewhere in the system.
We hear percentages being quoted regularly on TV ( inflation at 5%, goods advertised at 25% off, surveys saying 70% of people support policy X), but if school leavers are anything to go by, I'm pretty sure a fairly large proportion of the adult population have little idea of what the figures mean

[mel690]

£1500 is 25% of £6000.

[mel690]

£1500 is 25% of £6000.

[mel690]

£1500 is 25% of £6000.

[factor-fiction]

Welcome to AB, mel690. It's taken a while for you to make your first post but I'm sure you'll soon be hooked

[squarebear]

Got to agree with factor, it's a sorry state when people are unable to divide by 4 any more.

[dzug2]

My impression is that most people can work out percentages - they can do the arithmetic - but many have little idea on how to decide what percentage of what to work out

[bednobs]

i'm not sure that it's fair to criticize someone for this. I am in my late 30's with a B in maths at gcse and dont consider myself a dunce by any means. However, as my life has gone on, i find the maths part of my brain has atrophied. percentages and long division just seem to have been wiped out of my head (along with working out lengths of time - base six is rubbish!. I spent about 20 minutes in the supermarket once trying to work out whether 12 bottles of budweiser which had 200mls in each bottle were better value than 10 with 330 mls in each bottle, before finally giving in and buying them both

[murraymints]

£1500