How would you find 4% of £6.50?

This is all about knowing your powers of 10. By that I mean being able to dive or multiply by 10.

In this case I would start by finding out what 10% of £6.50 is.

You can do this by dividing £6.50 (which is 1005 of what you have) by 10, to give you 10% (as 100 divided by 10 is 10)

£6.50 / 10 = £0.65 or 65p

This is 10%, so we can now move on to find 1% by dividing this result by 10 (as 10 divided by 10 is 1)

0.65 / 10 = 0.065 0r 6.5p

so we have found 6.5p is 1%, it hopefully follows that 4% will be 4 lots of this :

4 x 6.5 = 26p

Firstly, it would be helpful to find 1% which you get by dividing the number by 100. This gets you 6.5 Then we would need to times this value by 4 to find 4%. This would be 26p.

If this is a calculator question the easiest hack to find any percentage of anything on a calculator is to locate the % button, on my calculator its found by pressing 'shift' then 'ans' , yours may be different but it will be in yellow above one of the buttons meaning you will need to press shift before it.

In maths whenever you see the word 'of' you need to multiply.

So 4% of 6.50 means 4% x 6.50

using my calculator i would type :

4 'shift' 'ans' x 6.50 =

then my answer would be 0.26

Hi there, to answer your question

First - divide 6.5 by 100 to find 1% of £6.50

1% = 0.065

Next - simply multiply your answer by 4, to find 4%

4% = 0.26

There are two ways in which I would teach this.

The first being that we know that 100% = £6.50, so we can start by finding 1%.

How do we go from 100% to 1%? (We divide by 100). Noting that whatever we do to one side of an equation we must do to the other. Therefore we must also divide £6.50 by 100, giving us £0.065 (or 6.5p).

Now we know that 1% = 6.5p, how would we find 4%?

How do we go from 1% to 4%? (We multiply by 4). Noting that whatever we do to one side of an equation we must do to the other. Therefore we must also multiply 6.5p by 4.

We now know that 4% = £0.26 or 26p.

The second way I would teach this is to ask students to find the multiplier. If 100% = a multiplier of 1. What will 4% be? It would be 0.04.

We take our original value of £6.50 and multiply it by 0.04 giving us the same answer as above, 26p.

Hello! Great question! 1% would be 0.065! The all you have to do is times that by 4. The answer of course is 26p! Hope that helps!

I would work out 1% by dividing £6.50 by 100 to make 6.5p and then find 4% by multiplying 6.5p by 4. 6.5 x 4 = 26p

4% of £6.50:

£6.50 / 100 = £0.065 (this is 1%)

£0.065 x 4 = £0.26 - 4%

4% of £6.25 is 26 pence