What proportion is 24 out of 120?

What proportion is 24 out of 120? In other words, what proportion is 24 out of 120 as a percentage? More specifically, if 24 is the part, and 120 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 24 out of 120 as a percentage:

24 out of 120 = P out of 100

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

P/100 = 24/120
P = 2400/120
P = 20

Now we know that the proportion of 24 out of 120 is the same as 20 out of 100, which means that we have our answer:

What proportion is 24 out of 120? = 20%

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