What proportion is 9 out of 15?

What proportion is 9 out of 15? In other words, what proportion is 9 out of 15 as a percentage? More specifically, if 9 is the part, and 15 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 9 out of 15 as a percentage:

9 out of 15 = P out of 100

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

P/100 = 9/15
P = 900/15
P = 60

Now we know that the proportion of 9 out of 15 is the same as 60 out of 100, which means that we have our answer:

What proportion is 9 out of 15? = 60%

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