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42 is What Percent of 5?

42 is 840% of 5

Percentage
840%
Decimal
8.4
Fraction
42/5
Ratio
42:5

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How to work it out

  1. Divide the part by the whole: 42 ÷ 5 = 8.4
  2. Multiply by 100: 8.4 × 100 = 840%
  3. Check: Work backwards: 840% of 5 is 8.4 × 5 = 42.

Another method. As a proportion of part to whole: 42/5 = p/100, so p = 42 × 100 ÷ 5 = 840%. Both methods always give the same answer.

In a spreadsheet: =42/5*100. Dividing the wrong way round (whole ÷ part) gives a different answer. The number after “of” is always the whole, so it goes on the bottom.

What the result means

42 is more than the whole amount (8.4 times as much) of 5. 42 goes past 5 by 37, which is another 740% on top of the whole.

Targets: selling 42 items against a target of 5 means reaching 840% of the target, beating it by 740%.

Turning it around

If you know that 42 is 840% of a number, you can get that number back: 42 ÷ 8.4 = 5. And 5 as a percentage of 42 is 11.9048%, a different answer, because the whole has changed.

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The other way round: 5 is what percent of 42?. Swapping the numbers gives a different answer: 5 is 11.9048% of 42. The two percentages multiply to 10,000 (840 × 11.9048 = 10,000), because 42/5 and 5/42 are reciprocals.

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Questions

42 is What Percent of 5?

42 is 840% of 5. See the formula, the steps and practice examples.

What is 42 out of 5 as a fraction?

42/5, which is already in simplest form. As a decimal it is 8.4.

Is 42 more than half of 5?

Yes. Half of 5 is 2.5, and 42 is more than that.