I am a number that represents a part of a whole, expressed in relation to 100. What am I?
Category: Math · Difficulty: expert
Hint: Consider the way we express proportions in everyday terms.
Answer
Percentage
Explanation
A percentage is a way of expressing a number as a fraction of 100.
This is a expert math riddle — one of the harder riddles here. The answer is Percentage.
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