Question

suppose your household income increased to $2,000.00 and your energy bill came from $180.00 how many percent of your household income is being spent on electricity​?​

Answer 1

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9% of the family income is being spent to pay the energy bill.

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HOW TO FIND OUT THE PERCENTAGE?

If your income is now $2,000.00 and you have withdrawn $180.00 from the value, then we say that the $2,000.00 is equivalent to 100% of the value, that is, the total amount. And the amount that was withdrawn will be X because we still don't know how much percent is equivalent to $ 180.00 of this value.

To solve, we will use the simple rule of three like this:

• $\frac{2000}{180} = \frac{100}{x}$

With this we will multiply the denominator of one with the numerator of the other, being:

• 2000 * X and 180 * 100
• Where: 2000 * x is equal to 2000x
• And 180 * 100 is equal to 18,000

Knowing this, we will solve it this way:

• 2000x = 18,000

To start we will isolate the unknown(x) from the values taking the 2000 to the other side of the equality turning it into the denominator of 18,000.

• $x = \frac{18000}{2000}$

And to finish, we cut the 3 zeros of the numerator with the d 3 zeros of the denominator getting 18 / 2. Now it's just dividing.

• $\begin{gathered}x = \frac{18}{2} \\ \\ x = 9\end{gathered}$

We can conclude that the amount spent to pay the energy bill is equivalent to 9% of the family income.