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How are percents and ratio different?

Updated: 8/19/2019
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13y ago

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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.

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The denominator of a ratio can be any number. The [implicit] denominator of a percentage is 100.

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