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OK, now I don't know how old you are to be asking some thing like this, but the reason for this is so that when you are comparing some thing in high detail it is can be easier to do it in percent. For example if your comparing very small numbers like 18.059% you can make it more detailed. And for on-line ratings, you can use percent instead of a fraction to make it easier, such as 87% good feed back
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Because in today's world things are usually compared by percentages, for example, out of 400 people surveyed only 100 gave their answer. Then you would take 100 and divide it by 400 to get a percentage. Then you would be able to say out of 400 people surveyed only 25% gave their answer. Take for example the polls on Fox News. they usually have a question for the day and by the end of the day they can say out of 46,000 people taking the survey only 25% say Obama is doing a good job; 30% say he is not doing a good job and 45% have no comment. So you can see percentages are used everyday for millions of comparisons.
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Are fractions greater than percents?
They are all the same, fractions can be turned into percents and percents can be turned into fractions. hope that helps :)
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lawyers use percents when figureing out prices and taxes of houses
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percents are used to dealing with math for example you can always do 45/100% wich reduces to 450%.
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When you go shopping with Savannah! :-)
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No one invented percents.
percents?
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When this is strong can be useful for making predictions?
i believe the answer is.... A strong OBSERVATION can be useful for making predictions
What is neamess?
I believe it is a methodology of making comparisons where the similarities are "fuzzy" or not exact but close in ressembelance.
