Well, honey, 73.5 percent is just a fancy way of saying 73.5 out of 100. It's like saying you got a C+ on a test - not bad, not great, just kinda meh. So, if you're dealing with percentages, just remember it's all about parts out of a hundred.
Expressed as a proper fraction in its simplest form, finding
73.5 percent of a number is the same as finding 147/200 or one
hundred and forty-seven two hundredths of a number.