How do you get the % a number is of another number?

Question

For example what percentage is 3 of 19? What's the equation for figuring this?

Answer 1

3/19 = 0.157894737

Multiply the decimal by 100 and add the % sign

0.157894737 x 100 = 15.78947368

The answer is 15.79% rounded to two decimal places.

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Answer 2

Cent in french is hundred (100) and percent means per hundred
2 precent means 2 out of hundred. So if you have 3percent of 19 means you divide 19 into 100 parts and take 3 portions of it.
3% of 19 means 19/100=0.19 so if you divide 19 into hundred is 0.19 and 3 portion of it means 3*0.19=0.59
and your question suppose to be what percentage of 3 is 19.

Answer 3

100 % = 19

3 % = 3 x 19 divided by 100 = .57 %

or:

100 % = 19
10 % = 1.9
1 % = 0.19
3 % = 3 x 0.19 = 0.57

Answer 4

percentage means how amny times is 3 greater than 19 in a hundred.
now 3 is greater than 19 by (3/19) times i.e 0.157
now in a hundred it is greater than 19 by 0.157*100 i.e 15.79

Answer 5

The first answer is the best and it's the only one with a PERCENTAGE sign...now, why do the Avatar's of the first 4 answers all resemble each other? Me thinks something fishy is going on here.

Answer 6

x is what percent, P, of y? Ans P = 100(X/Y)

3 is what percent of 19?

P = 100(3/19) = 15.79 %

Answer 7

we will go by your example.
what percent is 3 of 19?
=[3/19]*100
=15.79

Answer 8

% / 100 = is / of

or
%/100 = 3/19 , use as an equation.

Answer 9

Always remember that 125% of people do not understand percentages.

Answer 10

(a/b)*100

In your case
a = 3
b = 19

(3/19)*100 = 15.79%