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Tool to convert percentages/ratio/fractions. Percentage calculation consists in writing a number via a fraction of 100, using the sign %.

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# Percentage Calculation

## Computing with Percentage and Number

Tool to convert percentages/ratio/fractions. Percentage calculation consists in writing a number via a fraction of 100, using the sign %.

### How to convert a fraction into a percentage?

A percentage is ratio for 100 items. In mathematics and more specifically in statistics, it is a transformed fraction with the denominator 100 (one hundred). To convert a fraction to a percentage multiply the numerator and the denominator by a factor in order to have the denominator equals to 100.

Example: $3/4 = (3*25)/(4*25) = 75/100 = 75\%$

### How to convert a percentage to a fraction?

A percentage is already a fraction (over 100), write this proportion in lowest term.

Example: $25\% = 25/100 = 1/4$

### How to convert a percentage into a decimal number?

A percentage is a fraction and a fraction is a number, so converting a percentage to a number is making the corresponding division.

Example: $4\% = 4/100 = 0.04$

### How to calculate an equation with percentages?

The dCode tools as the equation solver allows to solve equations such as :

Example: If 25% of X = 100, Then X = ? (The answer is 400)

### What does pc means?

Sometimes the letters pc are used as an abbreviation of the word percent, often when the % key is not available (some keyboards or typewriters do not contain this sign)

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