{"id":1027,"date":"2015-11-04T06:19:12","date_gmt":"2015-11-04T06:19:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/race4job.com\/blog\/?p=1027"},"modified":"2015-11-04T06:19:12","modified_gmt":"2015-11-04T06:19:12","slug":"maths-tricks-and-shortcuts-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.race4job.com\/blog\/maths-tricks-and-shortcuts-3\/","title":{"rendered":"Maths Tricks and Shortcuts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Shortcut to find percentage of a number within seconds<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Let us understand a simple concept on percentages here<\/p>\n<p>100% of a number will be the number itself<br \/>\nex:100% of 360 will be 360<\/p>\n<p>50% of a number will be half of the number<br \/>\nex:50% of 360 will be 360\/2=180<\/p>\n<p>25% of a number will be quarter of the number or half of 50% of the number<br \/>\nex:25% of 360 will be 360\/4 or 180\/2=90<\/p>\n<p>10% of a number can be found by shifting the decimal point by 1 place to the left.<br \/>\nex:10% of 360 will be 36.0<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Now that we know the concept let us see how we can apply this trick in the below examples<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Example 1: \u00a0 \u00a0 11% of 550<\/p>\n<p><strong>Step 1:<\/strong>Split the number into 2 numbers that we can easily find the percentage of.<br \/>\nWe can split 11% into 10% and 1%<\/p>\n<p><strong>Step 2:<\/strong>First we find 10% of 550 by shifting the decimal point to the left by 1 place.<br \/>\nWe get,<br \/>\n10% of 550=55.0<\/p>\n<p><strong>Step 3:<\/strong>Now we need to find 1% of 550 by shifting the decimal point to the left by 2 places.<br \/>\nWe get,<br \/>\n1% of 550=5.50<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Shortcut to find percentage of a number within seconds Let us understand a simple concept on percentages here 100% of a number will be the number itself ex:100% of 360 will be 360 50% of a number will be half of the number ex:50% of 360 will be 360\/2=180 25% of a number will be [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1027","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.race4job.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1027","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.race4job.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.race4job.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.race4job.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.race4job.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1027"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.race4job.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1027\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1028,"href":"https:\/\/www.race4job.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1027\/revisions\/1028"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.race4job.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1027"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.race4job.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1027"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.race4job.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1027"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}