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Percents larger than 100% do of course exist. However, it depends very much on the context. For example, if items in a store have 20% markup, they are selling for 120% of the cost price. However, if you're running an experiment to see for instance how much percent of a drug has been dissolved in solution, if you get over 100%, you know that something is wrong with the tablet, the method or the instrument
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100 plus 15 percent equals 115 yet 115 minus 15 percent equals less than 100?
Yes that's right."Percent" is always "percent OF" something. It always refers to the starting number.Since 115 is larger than 100, 15% OF 115 is more than 15% OF 100.
Where can you find a percent larger than 100 percent in a newspaper?
Look in the international finance section - at some countries' debts as a percentage of their GDP!
Is 15 percent larger than 1 percent?
Yes, it is 15 times larger than 1%
How many times larger is 670 than 100?
670 is 6.7 times larger than 100.
Which is greater 0.017 percent or 1 percent?
1 percent is much larger than 0.017 percent.
