What proportion is 3 out of 76?

What proportion is 3 out of 76? In other words, what proportion is 3 out of 76 as a percentage? More specifically, if 3 is the part, and 76 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 3 out of 76 as a percentage:

3 out of 76 = P out of 100

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

P/100 = 3/76
P = 300/76
P ≈ 3.9474

Now we know that the proportion of 3 out of 76 is the same as 3.9474 out of 100, which means that we have our answer:

What proportion is 3 out of 76? ≈ 3.9474%

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