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What is 100 Percent of 500?

100% of 500 = 500

Result
500
Remaining
0
100% as decimal
1
500 + 100%
1,000

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How to work it out

  1. Turn the percentage into a decimal: 100 ÷ 100 = 1
  2. Multiply: 1 × 500 = 500
  3. Check: Work backwards: 500 ÷ 500 × 100 = 100%.

Another method. As a proportion of part to whole: 100/100 = part/500, so part = 100 × 500 ÷ 100 = 500. Both methods always give the same answer.

In a spreadsheet: =100%*500. Forgetting to divide the percentage by 100 makes the answer 100 times too big. Note that x% of y always equals y% of x.

What the result means

100% of a number is the number itself, so the answer is 500.

Mark-ups: pricing an item at 100% of its $500 cost means selling it for $500.

Adding and taking away 100%

Increasing 500 by 100% gives 1,000. These do not cancel out: raising 500 by 100% and then lowering the result by 100% ends at 0, because the second 100% is taken of a bigger number.

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5% of 500 = 25

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10% of 500 = 50

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20% of 500

20% of 500 = 100

25% of 500

25% of 500 = 125

50% of 500

50% of 500 = 250

75% of 500

75% of 500 = 375

The other way round: 500% of 100. 100% of 500 and 500% of 100 are always equal (both are 100 × 500 ÷ 100 = 500), so you can swap the numbers when one order is easier to work out in your head.

Practice

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