Note that you can reverse steps 1 and 2 and still come to the same solution. If you multiply 108 by 100 and then divide the result by 106, you will still come to 101.89!
108 / 106 = 101.89%
We encourage you to check out our introduction to percentage page for a little recap of what percentage is. You can also learn about fractions in our fractions section of the website. Sometimes, you may want to express a fraction in the form of a percentage, or vice-versa. This page will cover the former case. Luckily for us, this problem only requires a bit of multiplication and division. We recommend that you use a calculator, but solving these problems by hand or in your head is possibly too! Here's how we discovered that 108 / 106 = 101.89% :
Fractions are commonly used in everyday life. If you are splitting a bill or trying to score a test, you will often describe the problem using fractions. Sometimes, you may want to express the fraction as a percentage.
|101.89%||108 / 106||1.02|
A percentage is a number out of 100, so we need to make our denominator 100!
If the original denominator is 106, we need to solve for how we can make the denominator 100.
To convert this fraction, we would divide 100 by 106, which gives us 0.94.
Now, we multiply 0.94 by 108, our original numerator, which is equal to 101.89
101.89 / 100 = 101.89%
Remember, a percentage is any number out of 100. If we can balance 108 / 106 with a new denominator of 100, we can find the percentage of that fraction!
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