What proportion is 20 out of 118?

What proportion is 20 out of 118? In other words, what proportion is 20 out of 118 as a percentage? More specifically, if 20 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 20 out of 118 as a percentage:

20 out of 118 = P out of 100

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

P/100 = 20/118
P = 2000/118
P ≈ 16.9492

Now we know that the proportion of 20 out of 118 is the same as 16.9492 out of 100, which means that we have our answer:

What proportion is 20 out of 118? ≈ 16.9492%

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