What is 30% of 174500 euros?

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Anirudh E.
Dec 3, 2017

See below.

Explanation:

Whenever you see the word "of " in this level of mathematics, you can assume that it refers to "multiplication", or "multiplied by." So this problem is really asking you "What is 30% multiplied by 174500 euros?"

30%, or 30100, can be written as the decimal 0.30.

Therefore, this problem is asking (stated mathematically) "What is 0.30⋅174500. The answer to that would be 52350 euros.

I hope that helps!

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