What proportion is 42 out of 54?

What proportion is 42 out of 54? In other words, what proportion is 42 out of 54 as a percentage? More specifically, if 42 is the part, and 54 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 42 out of 54 as a percentage:

42 out of 54 = P out of 100

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

P/100 = 42/54
P = 4200/54
P ≈ 77.7778

Now we know that the proportion of 42 out of 54 is the same as 77.7778 out of 100, which means that we have our answer:

What proportion is 42 out of 54? ≈ 77.7778%

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