How do you translate percent problems into an equation?

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Wataru
Nov 2, 2014

Rememdber that "per" means "divided by", and "cent" means 100, so "percent" means "divided by 100" or "out of 100."

If a question says "A is a 29% of B," then you can write

#A=29/100 B#.

I hope that this was helpful.

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