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How are ratios similar to percent?
A ratio is a comparison of one number in relation to another number. A percent is a comparison of one number in relation to One Hundred.
The number 129.6 is 81 percent of another number What is the other number?
129.6 = 0.81x x = 129.6/.81 = 160
How do you convert 42 percent into a whole number?
The smallest whole number is ' 1 '. 42% is another way to write the number 0.42 and that's less than ' 1 ' . So 42 percent doesn't have what it takes to be a whole number, no matter what you do to it.
Example of positive correlation?
The number of pounds increases as the number of calories consumed increases.
What number increased by 40 percent equals 80?
Here's another way to ask the question: If you have a number and increase it by 40 percent you get 80. What is the number? Let x be the number you're looking for. Forty percent of the number can be expressed as 0.40x (because 40% = 0.40). The question said that x is increased by 40 percent, which implies addition, so the equation is x + 0.40x = 80 1.4x = 80 x = 80/1.4 = 57.14
