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Maths - Finding percentages without a calculator

A snack bar weighs 53g, and 10% of the weight is sultans. How many grams of sultans are in the snack bar?
Original post by juicey_143
A snack bar weighs 53g, and 10% of the weight is sultans. How many grams of sultans are in the snack bar?

Can you do this using decimals instead of percentages? What do you do after that?
10 % of something is the thing divided by 10

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