Working out 10 percent of pay for bonus

[lockdownrainbow]

Working out 10 percent of £420

£42

Depending on your tax code anything from £42 to £30.66 to £25.

Seriously?

What job pays bonuses to people who can't do primary school maths?

OP there's loads of free basic maths courses online, BBC bitesize are good.
Also google "how to work out percentages" so you'll know in future.

Huh?

I don't understand the question? Is there something we are missing?

Try percentage calculator. But 10% of anything is a pretty easy one...

Is this for real?

You just knock off the 0.

Blimey OP.

Did you finish your OP? I don’t think this can be the full question can it?

It really isn't nice to mock people whose knowledge might be less than your own.

Loads of peope struggle with this sort of thing.

To work out a percentage you divide by 100 and then times by the percentage you need. It's because percent means "per hundred" or "hundredths". That means the initial dividing by a hundred works out what each "hundredth" is worth before multiplying by how many hundredths are needed.

(420 ÷ 100) x 10 = 4.2 x 10 = 42

Thankyou i have always struggled with maths i got an f

@MarthaWashingtonsFeralTomcat

To work out a percentage you divide by 100 and then times by the percentage you need. It's because percent means "per hundred" or "hundredths". That means the initial dividing by a hundred works out what each "hundredth" is worth before multiplying by how many hundredths are needed.

(420 ÷ 100) x 10 = 4.2 x 10 = 42

Hmm, I'm not sure that someone who doesn't know how to divide by 10 is going to be following that.

I realise that you're being helpful and correct but that's not really going to work for someone with a maths age of under 10 surely.

To work out simpler % of 420 pounds, add a £ to the start and a full stop at the end.

£420.

For 10%, move the full stop once to the left.

So £42.0

For 1%, move the full stop twice to the left.

So £4.20

@pleasantville probably not, but I'd rather be helpful than spiteful.

GCSE Bitesize is a good bet too as PP said.

I'm sure OP can divide by 10 but lots of people find percentages scary and get blinded as to what's actually being asked.

Woah Pleasantville, not everyone is good at Maths you know..
no need to be insulting!

@Jellykat

Woah Pleasantville, not everyone is good at Maths you know.. no need to be insulting!

Not sure where you getting insulting from, I was observing that the explanation of percentages was most likely at too complicated a level for someone who has no understanding of how to calculate one.

Odd that you would comment on that and not the posters who were actually mocking the OP

OP may have dyscalculia, no need to be unkind.

Pleasantville your comment re. OP having a maths age of under 10 is hardly complimentary, is it?..

Sorry Op, I wasn't being rude, I just wasn't sure if I was missing something. I thought your concern might be how much you would get after tax for instance.

I think it is absolutely shocking that people are calling out the OP on maths skills. How insensitive.

OP, for 10% of any whole number (no decimal point) ending in 0, just take off the 0.

So 10% of 420 is 42. 10% of £420 is £42.
10% of £150 is £15 etc