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What is 2 percent of 50?

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Visualizing Through Pie Charts

One way of visualizing 2 percent is through a pie chart. In this example, the orange slice represents the percentage of the whole pie.

2 percent pie chart
2 percent pie chart

Visualizing Percentage with Bar Charts

Another way of visualizing percentages is using a bar chart like the one below. The orange bar represents 2, percent and the full square represents the whole or 100%.

2 percent bar chart
2 percent bar chart

Solution for 'What is 2% of 50?'

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Solution Steps

The following question is of the type "How much X percent of W", where W is the whole amount and X is the percentage figure or rate".

Let's say that you need to find 2 percent of 50. What are the steps?

Step 1: First determine the value of the whole amount. We assume that the whole amount is 50.

Step 2: Determine the percentage, which is 2.

Step 3: Convert the percentage 2% to its decimal form by dividing 2 by 100 to get the decimal number 0.02:

2100 = 0.02

Notice that dividing by 100 is the same as moving the decimal point two places to the left.

2.0 → 0.20 → 0.02

Step 4: Finally, find the portion by multiplying the decimal form found in the previous step by the whole amount:

0.02 x 50 = 1 (answer).

The steps above are expressed by the formula:

P = W × X%100

This formula says that:

"To find the portion or the part from the whole amount, multiply the whole by the percentage, then divide the result by 100".

The symbol % means the percentage expressed in a fraction or multiple of one hundred.

Replacing these values in the formula, we get:

P = 50 × 2100 = 50 × 0.02 = 1 (answer)

Therefore, the answer is 1 is that 2 percent of 50.

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