Question

In the formula x/100 = a/total which is the percent: x or x/100?

Answer 1

You say x% when it is x/100

Answer 2

SO,
when someone tells you
x/100
It is x%

Just x itself is not a percentage
But when it is divided by 100 it becomes

Answer 3

x/100 :)

Answer 4

yah per cent means per "100"

Answer 5

But when asked to find what percent one number is of another, I answer x=(a/total)*100

Answer 6

Take a example
and ask yourself

Answer 7

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Answer 8

Variables are confusing

Answer 9

if u want to know what percent a is of b then
= a/b * 100 =x%
how much is 20 of 50
20/50*100 = 40%

Answer 10

That is not the same as x/100 = a/b @dan815

Answer 11

x/100 = a/total

x means for 100 there are x
so x/100 itsef is the percent

(a/total )*100 =x
is how much in 100 of sample ( for example )

Answer 12

when a/b is represented as a fraction with the denominator 100 then the numerator is the %

Answer 13

The numerator is x @dan815

Answer 14

so x define a value of material mmm its like aphysical thing lol
it has a Module
while x/100 is a percentage or ratio
so there is uge diffrence btw them

Answer 15

% = 1/100

Answer 16

[x/100] is not percent here x is percent
per - cent [ Per hundred]

If [x/100] was the percent like [x/100]%
then it would have become

x/100/100

x/10000

Answer 17

So therefore
x% = x(1/100)

Answer 18

To find what percent one number is of another, I answer $$\Huge x=\frac{a}{total} \cdot 100$$

Answer 19

\[\Huge YES\]

Answer 20

To further clarify,

% = 1/100 = .01
therefore x% = x(.01) = .01x

That's why went you take the percent of a number you have to move the decimal two places to the left.

Answer 21

So x is a percent.

Answer 22

if it is divided by 100
U can't take a random "x" and say it is percent

Answer 23

x represents a number.
% is 1/100 or .01

x% means a number multiplied by 1/100 hence x/100
It's as simple as that.

Answer 24

So since x% = x/100 you can say that the expression

x/100 means "x percent of a number"

Answer 25

x/100 can not mean "x percent of a number"???

You haven't taken a percent of anything. @Hero

Answer 26

I explained it as best I could. All I know is, I'm not the one confused. Just trying to help you out.

Answer 27

Thanks @Hero :-)

Answer 28

I probably should have said more clearly that x/100 simply means "percent of a number".

Answer 29

and x represents some number of interest.

Answer 30

I have heard a good interpretation that goes:

percent is the numerator of a fraction whose denominator is 100 :-)