This section is about doing the math. This will help you if you were to buy stocks. Investing in the stock market requires a lot of math. Let us suppose we have $100,000
Find out the price of the stock you want to buy.
Convert any fractions to decimal by dividing the bottom #, called the denominator, into the top #, or the numerator.
Multiply this buy the # of shares you want to buy. Let's call this # a.
Find the broker's fee.
Let's suppose broker's fee is 2% of what you are spending.
To convert % to fraction pretend that there is a decimal point before the percent.
Move that invisible point two spaces to the left. Fill in the blank spaces with zeros.
This will be .02.
Different brokers will charge different amounts.
Let us call this # b.
Multiply # b by # a.
Let's call this # c.
Add this to # a to find out the total cost.
Subtract this amount from how much money you have to find how much money you have left.