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The word percent means "per one hundred." For example, 5% would be 5 divided by 100, or 5/100.
"Per centum" is the Latin term from which we derive the English word "percent" (somtimes rendered "per cent"). It literally means "of (or, out of) one hundred".
Percent means "per hundred" or divided by one hundred. 32% can be represented as 32/100. 32/100 can be simplified to 16/50 or 8/25.
One hundred and twenty is 240 per cent of 50.
To find the percentage equivalent of the decimal 0.108, you would multiply the decimal times one hundred (percent means literally "per hundred"). ) 0.108 times 100= 10.8%