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Your first bit of advice is very true, and from experience they never will look outside their own minds. As for keeping the thoughts in, i am getting them out for my own sake. It is there for others if they want, but mainly for myself.

As for the second part, you are right. I do take myself to seriously. I do try to let go, to lighten up, but i get lost in my own mind. But i can promise that i am trying.

.... I need help figuring out a formula/. for problems like:

88% of 70 is how much?

I was shown something like:

15 is 40% of how much?
15= .40 x N
-- ----------
.40 .40

How much is 20% of 30?
N= .20 x 30 = 6

and last...

12 is what percentage of 60?
12= % x 60
---*sp* ---------
60 *sp* 60
---
.2= 20%

None of those formulas helped me...

im not that smart and finished school but i think you divide the percentage by t he number your trying to figure out....... so it might be 88 divided by 70 i think.....

Wait, let me rephrase...

I need teh actual formula like:

N= .20 x 30 = 6

Or whatever the percentage is.

It's a little confusing, but I think I get what you are trying to ask. You need an explanation of the formulas, right? Well... if not, too bad, I'm giving you one.



Okey dokie...

Well you are basically being asked this:

I have a number. I find 40% of this number, and I get 15. What is the original number?

So basically, this is what the formula is saying.

15 = .40 x N

the . 40 means the same thing as the 40%, and N is just a letter that is used to represent that number we are trying to find. All that happened is that the words were put into an equation.

Because we know that 15 = 0.4 x N, we must modify that equation to get the N by itself, so that we can find out what it equals.

So, what you were showed is that it was divided by 0.4.

A rule is that any number divided by that same number is equal to 1. That also includes decimal numbers.

So basically, you were showed how to make 40% (or 0.4) equal to 100% (or 1). So now on that side of the equation you have 1 x N, which is just another way of writing that number we were trying to find at the beginning.

Now, see on the left side of the equation, you were shown that the 15 is also divided by 0.40. Do you know that rule that whatever you do to one side of an equation, you must do to the other? Well, basically, that is what just happened.

So you divided the right side by 40%, now you are doing the same to the left side.

So you have 15 divided by 0.4, which is equal to 37.5.

So in maths terms, that is...

15 = 0.40 x N

Then both sides were divided by 0.40 to get the N by itself

15 divided by 0.40 = N

15 divided by 0.40 on your calculator will give you 37.5

So that means that the number represented by N is 37.5.

To double check, just substitute back into the original equation.

Just go through that same process with all equations you have to do, and you should be sweet.

Wait, show me with 88% of 70 is how much? how to do that...

I would say cross multiply for the 88% of 70 part.
X/70 x 80/100


100x = 6160

x = 61.6

so 61.6 or 62 if you round it off would be 88% of 70. I guess it makes sense =/

88% of 70 = N

or

70 = 88% of N?

Would I change the of to an X?

I like food.

No, I am asking you what did you mean in the question.

88% x 70 = N

or

70 = 88% x N?

Lemme tell you the instructions of the paper:

1. We put the formula above the problem.
2. We solve.

I needed help with one...
... ? Sorry, but I don't understnd ur question... I'm really sorry if you're gettting angry at me, I just take a little bit to register things.

I know I;m in very much the same situation. I just don't like to share my thoughts or discoveries on universal truths with other people. they will not understand until they can figure it theselves. Speaking if figuring die! math die!

Okay then...

Use what Megababe wrote.

The formula would be N/70 x 88/100.

The working would go something like...

100 x N = 70 x 88

100N = 6160

N = 6160 / 100

N = 61.6

If the question asks to round your answer, do so accordingly.

And I am not getting angry at you, dont worry about it . I just didn't understand the question that you were asking me, but I just figured it out from Megababe. No big...

Can you put that on one line?

Sry...

One line? You mean without working? Just use the answer by itself without the working out.

Wait...

this paper is 40 problems, I have done 20 of them. Those ones were ones that used a different formula, but I can show you an example of them, 'cause this is basically what I have to do to each of the problems:
(remember, these have a different formula and so I could fugre this one out)
Problem 1. How much is 19% of 45?

Ok, I would put above it this:

N= .19 x 45

That would be the formula.

The problem finished would like:

-spce-N= .19 x 45
1. How much is 19% of 70? 8.55

I think I get you, probably not though.

Anyway, I will take the example of 19% and 45.

So basically, N = 0.19 x 45

All you do is enter that into your calculator and you should get a result.

Wrong formula... That was the formula of the problem I showed you, not the problem of the ones I'm the stuck on.

Okay, so you want to find out, for example...

.85 x N = 60

What is N?

Is that it? If so, give me some examples and I'll show you how they're done.

Oh, and take it to PM.

Yay! Mid-terms!

Yay! School Holidays til February!

Now i can do my homework...

Damn. At my school we go back at January 4th.