What proportion is 15 out of 52?

What proportion is 15 out of 52? In other words, what proportion is 15 out of 52 as a percentage? More specifically, if 15 is the part, and 52 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 52 as a percentage:

15 out of 52 = P out of 100

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

P/100 = 15/52
P = 1500/52
P ≈ 28.8462

Now we know that the proportion of 15 out of 52 is the same as 28.8462 out of 100, which means that we have our answer:

What proportion is 15 out of 52? ≈ 28.8462%

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