Need Help With Percentage Formula

[howiegoo]

I've been messing around with a little game app in VB.NET and have run into something that seems simple but has me baffled. Here is my problem:

I need to generate 5000 dots of which 50% of them are white, 20% are green, 10% are blue and 10% are red, and 10% are yellow.

I can generate the dots with ease but the percentage formula has me stumped. I've always sucked at percentages

Any math wiz here that can show me how to get the right ratio of colored dots?

[howiegoo]

Nevermind. I decided to go about it a little simpler by just coding in the specific number of each set of dots based on their precentages. I feel kinda silly I didn't think of it before. It's late and I don't drink but I'll blame it on that anyway!

[JBourgeois]

5000 * 50 / 100
5000 * 20 / 100
5000 * 10 / 100
5000 * 10 / 100
5000 * 5 / 100