Percent

Problem:



Solution:

To solve this problem, you need to convert the fraction $\frac{2500}{17500}$ to a percentage.

Let's start with simplifying it:

$\frac{2500}{17500} = \frac{1}{7}$

Ooops, how do we make the denominator 100, the trick is to multiply $\frac{100}{7}$ on both the numerator and denominator, and so we have

$\frac{2500}{17500} = \frac{1}{7} = \frac{\frac{100}{7}}{7 \times \frac{100}{7}} = \frac{\frac{100}{7}}{100}$

Therefore the answer is $\frac{100}{7}$ %

You can also represent that as decimal 14.29% (correct to 2 decimal place)