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Question 946094: Show me the step by step to solve the following problem.
What percent of 117 is 20.7?
Answer by Theo(13342) (Show Source):
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you would take 20.7 and divide it by 117 and then multiply the result by 100 to get the percent.

you would get:

20.7 / 117 = .1769 rounded to 4 decimal places.

this is called the ratio.

it is also called the proportion.

.1769 * 100 = 17.69% rounded to 2 decimal places.

this is called the percent.

you show that it's a percent by including the % symbol to the right of it so that everybody knows that it's a percent and not a ratio.

ratio = percent / 100 = 17.69% / 100 = .1769.

percent = ratio * 100 = .1769 * 100 = 17.69%.

the ratio itself is 20.7 / 117 in this case.