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A percent is a ratio of a number to WHAT?

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A percent is a ratio of a number to 100.

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How do you do percent into ratio?

Any number of percent is the ratio of that number to 100.


How do you write a ratio as a percent?

A percent is a number relative to 100. Therefore, we want the number 100 in the ratio. In order to do that, we need to multiply BOTH numbers in the ratio by a number so that the second number of the new ratio is equal to 100. The first number of the new ratio is the percent. For example: 4:5 = [4*20]:[5*20] = 80:100 = 80%


Is a ratio or rate that compares a number to 100?

A percent is a ratio, or rate, that compares a number to100


A ratio that compares a number to100?

A percent


A ratio comparing its number to 100?

Percent


Is 62 percent a rational number?

62 percent is the ratio of 62 to 100 ... a very rational number.


A special ratio that compares a number to 100?

Percent I beleive.


What is the term for - a ratio that compares a number to 100?

That is called percent.


How are ratios similar to percent?

A ratio is a comparison of one number in relation to another number. A percent is a comparison of one number in relation to One Hundred.


Is 67 percent a rational number?

To find 67% of a rational number would be changing that percent into a decimal to multiply that number. For example, 67% of 50.5 would be: 0.67 x 50 1/2 = 33 835/1000 = 33 (835 รท 5 = 173)/(1000 รท 5 = 200) = 33 173/200.


What is a special ratio that compares a number to 100 and uses the symbol percent?

Percentage!


How are percents and ratio different?

A ratio can have any denominator. In a percent the denominator is implicitly 100 and only the numerator is mentioned. So 35 percent is the same as the ratio 35/100 or the ratio 7/20.