no banana@piefed.world to memes@lemmy.worldEnglish · 10 months agoMathsmedia.piefed.worldimagemessage-square7linkfedilinkarrow-up15arrow-down10
arrow-up15arrow-down1imageMathsmedia.piefed.worldno banana@piefed.world to memes@lemmy.worldEnglish · 10 months agomessage-square7linkfedilink
minus-squareFiskFisk33@startrek.websitelinkfedilinkarrow-up1·10 months agoThat’s because multiplication is commutative taking a percentage of something essentially means multiplying it with a hundreath of the percentage 6% of 50 essentially means 50 * 0.06 or 50 * 6 * 0.01 and since 50 * 6 * 0.01 = 6 * 50 * 0.01 then of course 50 * 0.06 = 6 * 0.5 And we have the above
That’s because multiplication is commutative
taking a percentage of something essentially means multiplying it with a hundreath of the percentage
6% of 50 essentially means 50 * 0.06
or 50 * 6 * 0.01
and since
50 * 6 * 0.01 = 6 * 50 * 0.01
then of course
50 * 0.06 = 6 * 0.5
And we have the above