What proportion is 120 out of 143?

What proportion is 120 out of 143? In other words, what proportion is 120 out of 143 as a percentage? More specifically, if 120 is the part, and 143 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 143 as a percentage:

120 out of 143 = P out of 100

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

P/100 = 120/143
P = 12000/143
P ≈ 83.9161

Now we know that the proportion of 120 out of 143 is the same as 83.9161 out of 100, which means that we have our answer:

What proportion is 120 out of 143? ≈ 83.9161%

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