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What is 7.5% of 120?: animated lesson

A narrated, step-by-step percentages video lesson with captions. Final answer: 9.

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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 7.5% of 120?
2. Step by step
1. $7.5\% = \frac{7.5}{100} = 0.075$
  Convert the percent to a decimal by dividing by 100
2. $0.075 \times 120 = 9$
  Multiply the decimal by the number
3. The answer
$9$
7.5% × 120 = 9
4. Check
- Check: 9 ÷ 120 × 100 = 7.5%

Transcript

The problem. Here is the problem: What is 7.5 percent of 120? 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 9. 7.5 percent means 7.5 out of every 100, so 7.5 percent of 120 is 9.

Check. Check: 9 divided by 120 times 100 equals 7.5 percent.

About percentages

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

What is 7.5% of 120?: Percentages Step-by-Step Lesson