What is $70\%$ of $\$10?$ $\newline$ $\$$ _____

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Problem Understanding: Understand the problem. $\newline$ We need to calculate $70\%$ of $\$10$ . This means we need to find out what amount is $70$ out of $100$ parts of $\$10$ .
Convert to Decimal: Convert the percentage to a decimal. $\newline$ To calculate a percentage of a number, we convert the percentage to a decimal by dividing by $100$ . So, $70\%$ becomes $0.70$ .
Multiply by Total Amount: Multiply the decimal by the total amount. $\newline$ Now we multiply the decimal equivalent of $70$ % (which is $$0$.$70$) by $\$10$ to find out what $70$% of $\$10$ is.$\newline$$0.70 \times \$10 = \$7$
Verification: Verify the calculation.$\newline$To check for a math error, we can consider if our steps logically make sense. We converted the percentage to a decimal and then multiplied it by the total amount. Since $10\%$ of $\$$$10$ is $\$$$1$, $70\%$ should be $\$$$7$, which matches our calculation.