March 24 2019, 01:00

An intriguing little life hack for calculating percentages:

X% of Y = Y% of X

So, for example, if you need to calculate 4% of 75 mentally, just swap the numbers and calculate 75% of 4, which is much easier.

Understandably, this is somewhat obvious from a mathematical point of view (100 in the denominator moves to the second factor), but nobody has been doing this in mental calculations, right?

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