Question

26 is what percent of 53? ____% Round to the nearest hundreth

Answer 1

The percent is given by the expression:

$\text{Total x}\frac{percent}{100}=\text{ The percent of total}$

So, in this case:

$53\times\frac{percent}{100}=26$

We have to isolate percent with inverse operations to solve equations:

$\begin{gathered} \text{percent}=\frac{26\times100}{53} \\ \text{percent}=\frac{2600}{53}=49.06\text{ percent} \end{gathered}$

26 is the 49.06% of 53