The word is derived from the Latin Per Centum meaning by the hundred. In ancient Rome a one per cent tax was levied on all goods sold at auction
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They are called sums of percentages!
percentages are used to tell the over all number
Add the 2 percentages together, then divide by 2.
Fractions are integers divided by integers. Percentages are the number of hundredths.
Most people work with percentages in one way or another.