A fraction with denominator 100 is called percentage and is denoted by the symbol %.
In our daily life, we see a lot of statements with numbers followedby a symbol %. A number followed by % is called a percentage or percent. Theterm percent comes from the Latin phrase per centum, meaning by the hundred.Percentage is another way of expressing a part of a whole.
One hundred percent of a quantity is \(\frac{100}{100}\) ofit, for example if 40 students are enrolled in a class and all 40 are presenton a particular day, then 100% of the class is present.
The word percent means per hundred or for every hundred. Thus, Clara got 83 marks out of 100 means; she got 83 percent marks.
Conversely, when a student scored 67 percent marks that means; the student scored 67 marks out of 100.
The symbol of percent is %.
Thus, 15 percent will be written as 15%
7/100 means 7%.
Conversely, 9% means 9/100.
On the status bar of our computer 100% indicates that thebattery is fully charged. Let us illustrate this by assuming that a battery ismade up of 100 small cells and each cell of the battery is represented by anequal part on a square sheet. The shaded region in the following figures showsthe percentage of charge in a battery.
So, we can say that percentage represents parts her hundred.Percentage is a fraction with 100 as its denominator.
Thus, 7% means 7 out of 100 = \(\frac{7}{100}\)
85% means 85 out of 100 = \(\frac{85}{100}\)
For example:
(i) 20/100 = 20%
[It is read as 20 percent]
(ii) 15/100 = 15%
[It is read as 15 percent]
(iii) 5/100 = 5%
[It is read as 5 percent]
(iv) 71/100 = 71%
[It is read as 71 percent]
(v) 89/100 = 89%
[It is read as 89 percent]
To Convert a Percentage into a Fraction
To Convert a Fraction into a Percentage
To find the percent of a given number
To find what Per cent is one Number of another Number
To Calculate a Number when its Percentage is Known
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