What is 240 minus 5 percent?

Here we will explain how to calculate the answer to: 240 minus 5 percent. To find the answer, we first calculate what 5 percent of 240 is, and then we deduct that amount from 240 to get the answer.

To get the 5 percent from any number such as 240, we multiply the number by 5 and then divide that answer by 100. Thus, to find 5 percent of 240, we do this:

(240 x 5)/100 = 12

Next, we simply subtract 12 from 240 like this:

240 - 12 = 228.

Therefore, as illustrated and calculated above, the answer to "What is 240 minus 5 percent?" is as follows:

228

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