What proportion is 120 out of 118?

What proportion is 120 out of 118? In other words, what proportion is 120 out of 118 as a percentage? More specifically, if 120 is the part, and 118 is the whole, what will the part be if the whole is 100?

Below is a more straightforward illustration showing you what we mean when we say we want find the proportion of 120 out of 118 as a percentage:

120 out of 118 = P out of 100

The above problem can be made into an equation and can be solved like this:

P/100 = 120/118
P = 12000/118
P ≈ 101.6949

Now we know that the proportion of 120 out of 118 is the same as 101.6949 out of 100, which means that we have our answer:

What proportion is 120 out of 118? ≈ 101.6949%

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