What proportion is 99 out of 101?

What proportion is 99 out of 101? In other words, what proportion is 99 out of 101 as a percentage? More specifically, if 99 is the part, and 101 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 99 out of 101 as a percentage:

99 out of 101 = P out of 100

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

P/100 = 99/101
P = 9900/101
P ≈ 98.0198

Now we know that the proportion of 99 out of 101 is the same as 98.0198 out of 100, which means that we have our answer:

What proportion is 99 out of 101? ≈ 98.0198%

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