Many every day financial transactions involve percentages: discounts at sales, taxes on goods or services that you buy (or sell), any money that you save will earn a [measly] percentage interest, any money that you borrow will cost a huge percentage interest, your tax rates will be percentages, your pay rise (if any) will probably be a percentage.
It is possible to remain ignorant of percentages and be taken for a ride in any of the above situations or you can wise up. Your choice!
Important is the reference. 12 is 100 percent. 0.12 is 1 percent. 19/0.12 = 158.3333 19 is 158.333 percent of 12.
No- nowhere near that important- surely less than one percent.
To determine how right or wrong their answer is.
It provides about 19 percent of US electricity and about 16 percent world-wide
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Use a caculator. Because I.D.K. and it's not important.
Most important uses of plastics include packaging (22.6 million pounds; 29 percent of all thermoplastic resins), building and construction (13.2 million pounds; 17 percent), and consumer and institutional uses (11.2 million pounds; 12 percent).
If the two carry the same importance (weight) then 47.31. If not, then it depends on which one is more important.
It is not particularly important, though it is a skill, in manipulating numbers, which school pupils are expected to master.
Knowing the right percent strength of a solution is important because it ensures that the solution will be effective for its intended purpose. Inaccurate percent strength can result in the solution being either too weak to be effective or too strong and potentially harmful. Proper knowledge of the percent strength also facilitates consistency and reproducibility in scientific experiments or processes.
An important statistic is the percent of rooms filled each night.