5% of what is 60? The answer is not 12. Ukraine Math Test #math #percentages #ukraine

Added: 2026-05-27

[00:00:00]Welcome everyone. So, today we're going to understand why the answer for this question is not supposed to be 12. See, the question is what? When you have something like this, you need to write this in its mathematical form. The question is 5% of what is 60? So, 5% can be written as 5/100.

[00:00:17]Of means multiplication. What means X.

[00:00:19]Is means equal to 60.

[00:00:22]Now, in order to find the value of X, we will multiply both sides by 100 and divide both sides by 5.

[00:00:34]So, here what happens is this and this gets cancelled. This and this gets cancelled. So, value of X comes out to be what? This is 1s and 12s.

[00:00:42]So, value of X comes out to be 1200.

[00:00:46]I hope this is very, very clear to everyone. That's it for today. I will see you in the next video.