What proportion is 8 out of 137?

What proportion is 8 out of 137? In other words, what proportion is 8 out of 137 as a percentage? More specifically, if 8 is the part, and 137 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 8 out of 137 as a percentage:

8 out of 137 = P out of 100

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

P/100 = 8/137
P = 800/137
P ≈ 5.8394

Now we know that the proportion of 8 out of 137 is the same as 5.8394 out of 100, which means that we have our answer:

What proportion is 8 out of 137? ≈ 5.8394%

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