What proportion is 15 out of 27?

What proportion is 15 out of 27? In other words, what proportion is 15 out of 27 as a percentage? More specifically, if 15 is the part, and 27 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 15 out of 27 as a percentage:

15 out of 27 = P out of 100

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

P/100 = 15/27
P = 1500/27
P ≈ 55.5556

Now we know that the proportion of 15 out of 27 is the same as 55.5556 out of 100, which means that we have our answer:

What proportion is 15 out of 27? ≈ 55.5556%

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