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-- Ignore the signs temporarily. -- Divide the numbers. -- The quotient is negative.
Remove the percentage sign and divide by 100. In decimal form, it means simply move the decimal point two spaces to the left.
Probably simplest to convert them to decimal, divide, then convert back to octal. Unless there is a special reason want to avoid that approach.
Whole numbers are a proper subset of decimal numbers. All whole numbers are decimal numbers but not all decimal numbers are whole numbers.
Add them all together then divide the sum by 100 (move the decimal point two places to the left).