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Question #1d34c

Answer 1

The language definition of "percent" is parts in one hundred (from the Latin)

Explanation:

When we calculate a "percent" we are looking for the number of an item that occurs in a "whole" of 100. In that way we can easily scale the values to fit any real number size because it is a proportional ratio.

So, 4% means "4 parts out of 100 parts". Or `4/100` as a fraction, or `0.04` as a decimal.

If we have a lot of 250 parts we can use the percent figure to see that 4% of 250 is `0.04 xx250 = 8` parts.