What proportion is 20 out of 47?

What proportion is 20 out of 47? In other words, what proportion is 20 out of 47 as a percentage? More specifically, if 20 is the part, and 47 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 47 as a percentage:

20 out of 47 = P out of 100

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

P/100 = 20/47
P = 2000/47
P ≈ 42.5532

Now we know that the proportion of 20 out of 47 is the same as 42.5532 out of 100, which means that we have our answer:

What proportion is 20 out of 47? ≈ 42.5532%

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