Question

What percentage is 15 out of 17?

Answer 1

You divide 15/17 = 0.88235294 then move your decimal 2 spots over to the right

Answer 2

88.23%

Simply plug 15/17 into you calculator

and it will give you a decimal, in this case it should be .88235294...

simply move the decimal back to placements and you should have

88.235294... thats still a lot of numbers so just reduce it to 2 places after the decimal and add a percent sign

88.23%

and your done :) this works for any similar problems

I hope this helps