what percentage is 36,000 of 80,000?
45 percent because you take 36000 times 100 and divide it by 80000
[1] When asked an easy question like "What percentage is 10 of 20?" we can easily find the answer by writing:10/20 = 0.5 => 50%[2] The same idea works even for big numbers:36000/80000 = 0.45 => 45%