What proportion is 7 out of 48?

What proportion is 7 out of 48? In other words, what proportion is 7 out of 48 as a percentage? More specifically, if 7 is the part, and 48 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 7 out of 48 as a percentage:

7 out of 48 = P out of 100

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

P/100 = 7/48
P = 700/48
P ≈ 14.5833

Now we know that the proportion of 7 out of 48 is the same as 14.5833 out of 100, which means that we have our answer:

What proportion is 7 out of 48? ≈ 14.5833%

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