I'm trying to find 6.5% of $300.00, i know i have to turn the percent into a decimal, but i'm having trouble doing that.

For problems involving percent, it can be helpful to understand that "percent" means "per cent" or "per hundred". ("Per" means "divided by.")

In symbols, the "%" symbol is just a shorthand way of writing "/100".

So 6.5% = 6.5/100. You can get rid of the decimal point by multiplying both numerator and denominator by 10. Doing that gives

... 6.5% = 6.5/100 = 65/1000 (sixty-five thousandths)

Now, you know the way to write sixty-five thousandths as a decimal is

... 65/1000 = 0.065

Compare this result to any problem in which you are dividing by 100. For such a problem, you simply move the decimal point 2 places to the left.

... 3456/100 = 34.56 . . . . . . for example

Or, in your case

... 6.5% = 6.5/100 = 0.065 . . . . . decimal point is moved to the left

Then 6.5% of $300 is ...

0.065 × 300.00 = 19.50

You can also rearrange the problem to

... 6.5% × 300

... = 6.5/100 × 300

... = 6.5 × (300/100) . . . . use the associative property of multiplication

... = 6.5 × 3

... = 19.5

the difference between a number and 5 is -2.

step-by-step explanation:

notice that the equation you are given has -2 (negative 2) on the right side, not 2. when you subtract 5 from a number n, you are finding the difference between the number and 5.

the difference between a number and 5 is -2.