thisfro, (edited )

They probably did, just not explicitly:

You could write (61/100)50 = 6(501/100)

It only uses the commutative property of multiplication and the fact that % is another way of writing 1/100.

Maybe also worth remembering that “x% of y” is just x/100*y

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