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  • FiskFisk33@startrek.websitetomemes@lemmy.worldMaths
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    4 minutes ago

    That’s because multiplication is commutative

    taking a percentage of something essentially means multiplying it with a hundreath of the percentage
    6% of 50 essentially means 50 * 0.06
    or 50 * 6 * 0.01

    and since
    50 * 6 * 0.01 = 6 * 50 * 0.01
    then of course
    50 * 0.06 = 6 * 0.5

    And we have the above