Do you know the easy way to solve percentages?

This is a simple math technique I use almost every day. #shorts

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[MickeyKnox]

uhm ... isn't that the usual way?

[sushantmanandhar]

So to figure out percentages, you figure out percentages
Thanks a lot Presh

[untitledproductions]

I’m genuinely surprised people don’t do this more often. Like even as a very obedient kid who pays attention in class, I literally forget to do it the way they taught me and do this instead

[plewis]

This is a trick now that math education has sunk so low.

[ManuPande]

Much better is just multiply both of them and adjust the decimal point later

[rjmunro]

That's the normal way to do it. The trick is to realise that you can move the % around wherever you like and only apply it at the end. E.g. 7 * 108% = 756% = 7.56. It's more useful if you want to know e.g. what's 8% of 25? 25% of 8 is 2, which is the same!

[abysslight]

I was expecting it to be the percent flip thing. Like how 7% of 108 is the same thing as 108% of 7. From there you just find 8% of 7 (0.56) and then add it to 7, which is 100% of 7. That's how I did it at least.

[PutXi_Whipped]

LOL what’s the trick?

Here’s a trick I found out just by watching the video

1% of 108 = 1.08
Now double it
2% of 108 = 2.16
Now double it
4% of 108 = 4.32

Sum the numbers to get 7% of 108 = 7.56

*AND THAT’S THE ANSWER!*

[AloeBlackbar]

yup, thats how i do it when i don't have a calculator

[tiletapperever]

Watching this at 3 AM: isn't it √π 🤨

[SurrealKeenan]

You can also find 108% of 7 which is 7 + 7 * 8 / 100 (or 1.56).

[MrMayhem]

You could also move the decimal point after multiplying 7×108.

[caesar_cipher]

Normal procedure : multiply and then divide by 100
Presh : heres a ticke - first divide by 100 and then multiply
aaargghhhh

[hachkoko]

You could also do it the "standard way" and multiply 108 by 7 and then divide by 100, it's not harder

[janda]

Thought it was gonna be a ”x% of y is the same as y% of x”, but no, just regular percentage calculation

[Soulskinner]

Em. And where is the trick? We've learned it in school right when we learned percents. Like to find desired percent you need to divide number by 100, then multiply by desired percent.

[GraveUypo]

that's pretty standard for working with percentages tho

[IoRoberto]

This Is not a "trick", it's what normal people do

[cqfd]

very usefull! 7% of 108 is 108% of 7

[vincentvaleur]

You could also multiply 108 by 7 = 756 and then divide by 100 to get 1% = 7.56