What is 218 minus 1 percent?

Here we will explain how to calculate the answer to: 218 minus 1 percent. To find the answer, we first calculate what 1 percent of 218 is, and then we deduct that amount from 218 to get the answer.

To get the 1 percent from any number such as 218, we multiply the number by 1 and then divide that answer by 100. Thus, to find 1 percent of 218, we do this:

(218 x 1)/100 = 2.18

Next, we simply subtract 2.18 from 218 like this:

218 - 2.18 = 215.82.

Therefore, as illustrated and calculated above, the answer to "What is 218 minus 1 percent?" is as follows:

215.82

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