40 Percent Of 85?

PercentageCalculator .pro Discount Percentage Fraction to % Decimal to % ☰ What is 40 percent of 85?

Percentage Calculator

What is 'X' percent of 'W'

What is % of Answer:

'P' out of 'W' as a percentage

What is out of as a percentage? Answer: %

'P' is 'X' percent of What?

is % of what?Answer:

Visualizing Through Pie Charts

One way of visualizing 40 percent is through a pie chart. In this example, the orange slice represents the percentage of the whole pie.

40 percent pie chart

Visualizing Percentage with Bar Charts

Another way of visualizing percentages is using a bar chart like the one below. The orange bar represents 40, percent and the full square represents the whole or 100%.

40 percent bar chart

Solution for 'What is 40% of 85?'

In the following example, consider that:

• The percentage figure is represented by X%
• The whole amount is represented by W
• The portion amount or part is represented by P

Solution Steps

The following question is of the type "How much X percent of W", where W is the whole amount and X is the percentage figure or rate".

Let's say that you need to find 40 percent of 85. What are the steps?

Step 1: First determine the value of the whole amount. We assume that the whole amount is 85.

Step 2: Determine the percentage, which is 40.

Step 3: Convert the percentage 40% to its decimal form by dividing 40 by 100 to get the decimal number 0.4:

40100 = 0.4

Notice that dividing by 100 is the same as moving the decimal point two places to the left.

40.0 → 4.00 → 0.40

Step 4: Finally, find the portion by multiplying the decimal form found in the previous step by the whole amount:

0.4 x 85 = 34 (answer).

The steps above are expressed by the formula:

P = W × X%100

This formula says that:

"To find the portion or the part from the whole amount, multiply the whole by the percentage, then divide the result by 100".

The symbol % means the percentage expressed in a fraction or multiple of one hundred.

Replacing these values in the formula, we get:

P = 85 × 40100 = 85 × 0.4 = 34 (answer)

Therefore, the answer is 34 is that 40 percent of 85.

Sample percentage problems

• 60 percent of 25
• 12 percent of 65

• 60 percent of 120
• 15 percent of 60

• 140 percent of 480
• 30 percent of 240

See also:

• 'P' is what percent of 'W' Calculator
• Discount or Percent-off Calculator