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Calculating percentages is an inseparable aspect of our lives: when shopping we calculate rebates and discounts, in banks we compute interest rates, and we use interest to calculate a company’s earnings.
The word percentage comes from Latin and means out of one hundred. The sign % is a mathematical symbol which expresses a percentage. Calculating with percentages has much in common with calculating with fractions except, in this case, the denominator is always 100.
For example:
3 % =