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What is 200% of 3?: animated lesson

A narrated, step-by-step percentages video lesson with captions. Final answer: 6.

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Video narrated by a synthetic voice (Piper TTS, en_US-ljspeech-high voice (LJ Speech dataset, public domain)); the steps come from our maths engine and the answer was checked independently. Download MP4 (0.2 MB) · Captions (WebVTT)

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1. The problem
Working with percentages
What is 200% of 3?
2. Step by step
1. $200\% = \frac{200}{100} = 2$
  Convert the percent to a decimal by dividing by 100
2. $2 \times 3 = 6$
  Multiply the decimal by the number
3. The answer
$6$
200% × 3 = 6
4. Check
- Check: 6 ÷ 3 × 100 = 200%

Transcript

The problem. Here is the problem: What is 200 percent of 3? Find a percentage of a number.

Step by step. Convert the percent to a decimal by dividing by 100. Multiply the decimal by the number.

The answer. So the answer is 6. 200 percent means 200 out of every 100, so 200 percent of 3 is 6.

Check. Check: 6 divided by 3 times 100 equals 200 percent.

About percentages

Percent of a number, what percent one number is of another, the whole from a part, and percent change.

What is 200% of 3?: Percentages Step-by-Step Lesson