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PostPosted: Tue Jul 22, 2008 2:46 am    Post subject: percentages Reply with quote
Hi

What is the quickest and easiest way to work out percentages - I seem to be wasting a lot of time.

Thanks in advance
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PostPosted: Tue Jul 22, 2008 2:52 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
It's really depends on what kind of question. Sometime you can use estimation. and sometime you can convert them to regular fractions like 50%=1/2

I find that converting X percent to X/100 fraction, usually helps me a lot.
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