This is because Andrea converted the Percentage wrong. to Convert a Percent to a Decimal, she should have divided by 100 so 5 divided by 100 = 0.05 [not 0.5] Andrea should have multiplied 300 by 0.05 instead to get the right answer
quickly finding 10% of a number means to simply move the decimal to the left one place so 10% of 300 is 30