Answer:
Well you can make a proportion
Percentage means ”Out of a hundred”
So you can make a proportion with any fraction Equal to x/100 since
X is the unknown perctange.
in this case it’s 16/25
16/25 = x/100
So cross multiply To solve for X
1600= 25x
x= 64
So 64 Percent
In this case you can use benchmarks. If you do it more or long enough, you’d memorize them.
In this case 25 is a bench mark of 1/4 or 25. 25 goes into 100 4 times so you can multiply 16 by 4 to get your percentage since if you do multiply 4, you have to do it to both the numerator and the Denominator.
so 16/25
16*4= 64
25*4=100
64/100 or 64 percent.
Common benchmarks for percentages
5, 10, 20, 25, 50
5 is always multiply by 20
10 is always multiply by 10
20 is always multiplied by 5
25 is always multiplied by 4
50 is always multiplied by 2
