Percentages Let’s Learn Together When a proportion is given as a fraction out of one hundred, it is called a ‘percent’.
1 A farmer collects 100 eggs and notices some of them are brown.
6 ____ 100
We can show the proportion of the eggs as
.
This is the same as saying 6 ‘per cent’. We write this as 6%.
6 percent of the eggs are brown.
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