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How do I change a decimal into a percentage?

the freak | 20:59 Tue 11th Jan 2005 | Quizzes & Puzzles

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I'm probably posting this in the wrong place,I don't know.Anyway,here's the question:How do I change 27.27 into a percentage?I got that by dividing 11 into 300.Please help quickly!

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keen2learn

It's not making sense - I don't think you can have a percentage of nothing. What is 27.27 supposed to be a percentage of? If the original problem was to express 11 as a percentage of 300 then the answer would be 3.7%.

Dave Potts

The way you obtain a percentage with the figures you speak of is 11 /300 x 100/1, or at least that's how I was always taught in school

11 divided by 300 = 0.0366666 (recurring)

Multiply 0.0366666 by 100 et voila = 3.66666 (recurring), or 3.7% if you're rounding to the nearest 10th of a percent.

brachiopod

'I got that by dividing 11 into 300'

Why?

300/11 as a percentage is

300/11 x 100 = 2727.27 %

which would make sense if, say, you were talking about an item that cost �11 to make but sold for �300 you could say there's a 2727% mark-up.

You'll have to explain what you are trying to work out if you want the correct answer.

the freak

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Blaah,I'm sorry,I wasn't making any sense.I've figured it out though.I was uneccessarily turning 30 into 300,making my answer a decimal with numbers that couldn't be changed into a percentage(272%?!)Instead I got 27%,which makes much more sense.Thanks for your comments,though,keen2learn andDave Potts,if I had been doing it right,they would have been dead useful.(I feel so stoopid)

the freak

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Edit-And thank you Brachiopod!(you posted a few seconds before I did)

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