What proportion is 5 out of 63?

What proportion is 5 out of 63? In other words, what proportion is 5 out of 63 as a percentage? More specifically, if 5 is the part, and 63 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 5 out of 63 as a percentage:

5 out of 63 = P out of 100

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

P/100 = 5/63
P = 500/63
P ≈ 7.9365

Now we know that the proportion of 5 out of 63 is the same as 7.9365 out of 100, which means that we have our answer:

What proportion is 5 out of 63? ≈ 7.9365%

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