What proportion is 5 out of 72?

What proportion is 5 out of 72? In other words, what proportion is 5 out of 72 as a percentage? More specifically, if 5 is the part, and 72 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 72 as a percentage:

5 out of 72 = P out of 100

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

P/100 = 5/72
P = 500/72
P ≈ 6.9444

Now we know that the proportion of 5 out of 72 is the same as 6.9444 out of 100, which means that we have our answer:

What proportion is 5 out of 72? ≈ 6.9444%

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