{"id":276359,"date":"2025-07-31T04:53:46","date_gmt":"2025-07-31T04:53:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/learnexams.com\/blog\/?p=276359"},"modified":"2025-07-31T04:53:48","modified_gmt":"2025-07-31T04:53:48","slug":"find-one-half-percent-of-280","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.learnexams.com\/blog\/2025\/07\/31\/find-one-half-percent-of-280\/","title":{"rendered":"Find one-half percent of $280."},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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The Correct Answer and Explanation is:<\/mark><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The correct answer is $1.40<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

To find the solution, we must first correctly interpret the phrase “one-half percent.” This is not the same as 50 percent, which would be half of the total amount. Instead, “one-half percent” means half of a single percent. This can be expressed numerically as 0.5% or as the fraction 1\/2 %. Understanding this distinction is the most critical part of solving the problem correctly.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

There are a couple of straightforward methods to calculate this value.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Method 1: The Two-Step Approach<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

A very intuitive way to solve this is to first determine the value of one percent of the total and then take half of that result.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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  1. Calculate one percent of $280.<\/strong>\u00a0The word “percent” literally means “per hundred.” Therefore, to find one percent of any number, you simply divide that number by 100.
    $280 \u00f7 100 = $2.80
    So, one percent of $280 is two dollars and eighty cents.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  2. Calculate half of that amount.<\/strong>\u00a0Since the problem asks for one-half percent, we now take the value of one percent ($2.80) and divide it by two.
    $2.80 \u00f7 2 = $1.40
    This calculation gives us the final answer.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n

    Method 2: The Decimal Conversion Approach<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

    Another common and direct method is to convert the percentage into its decimal form before performing the multiplication.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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    1. Convert one-half percent (0.5%) to a decimal.<\/strong>\u00a0To convert any percentage to a decimal, you must divide it by 100. This is equivalent to moving the decimal point two places to the left.
      0.5% = 0.5 \u00f7 100 = 0.005
      It is important to be careful with this conversion. A common mistake is to incorrectly use 0.5, which actually represents 50%. The correct decimal for one-half percent is 0.005.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
    2. Multiply the decimal by the total amount.<\/strong>\u00a0Now, you multiply this decimal by the original number, which is $280. The word “of” in mathematics typically signifies multiplication.
      0.005 \u00d7 $280 = $1.40<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n

      Both methods lead to the same result. The calculation shows that one-half percent is a very small fraction of the whole. Thus, one-half percent of <\/p>\n\n\n\n

      280is\u2217\u2217280i<\/em>s<\/em>\u2217\u2217<\/code><\/pre>\n\n\n\n
      1.40**.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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      The Correct Answer and Explanation is: The correct answer is $1.40. To find the solution, we must first correctly interpret the phrase “one-half percent.” This is not the same as 50 percent, which would be half of the total amount. Instead, “one-half percent” means half of a single percent. This can be expressed numerically as 0.5% […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-276359","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-exams-certification"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.learnexams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/276359","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.learnexams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.learnexams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.learnexams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.learnexams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=276359"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.learnexams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/276359\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.learnexams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=276359"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.learnexams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=276359"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.learnexams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=276359"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}