Dividing two integers in Java gives me 0 or 100?

Question

I\'m trying to divide two integers and multiply by 100 but it keeps giving only 0 or 100. Can someone help me?

    int x= (a/b)*100;

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Answer 1

Integer division has no fractions, so 500 / 1000 = 0.5 (that is no integer!) which gets truncated to integer 0. You probably want

int x = a * 100 / b;