What proportion is 16 out of 162?

What proportion is 16 out of 162? In other words, what proportion is 16 out of 162 as a percentage? More specifically, if 16 is the part, and 162 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 16 out of 162 as a percentage:

16 out of 162 = P out of 100

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

P/100 = 16/162
P = 1600/162
P ≈ 9.8765

Now we know that the proportion of 16 out of 162 is the same as 9.8765 out of 100, which means that we have our answer:

What proportion is 16 out of 162? ≈ 9.8765%

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