Question

Which is bigger 40 percent of 1,000 or one quarter of 1200?

Answer 1

I think it is 40 percent of1,000

Answer 2

40% of a 1000 equals 40/100 multiplied by 1000. This simplifies to 4/10 multiplied by 1000, which equals 400.

One quarter of 1200 equals 1/4 multiplied by 1200, which equals 300.

So we can see that 40% of 1000 is greater then one quarter of 1200.


I hope this helped!