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by shankar.ashwin » Tue Oct 11, 2011 9:09 am
15% of 1 = 0.15

0.15 is 1% of 15 (0.15*100 = 15) D

romitvsingh wrote:What percent of 15 is 15 percent of 1?(A) 0.001(B) 0.01 (C) 0.1(D) 1(E) 101.
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by GmatKiss » Tue Oct 11, 2011 9:13 am
romitvsingh wrote:What percent of 15 is 15 percent of 1?(A) 0.001(B) 0.01 (C) 0.1(D) 1(E) 101.
15 * (x/100) = 1 * (15/100)
x should be 1.

IMO: D
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by GmatKiss » Tue Oct 11, 2011 9:35 am
shankar.ashwin wrote:15% of 1 = 0.15

0.15 is 1% of 15 (0.15*100 = 15) D
romitvsingh wrote:What percent of 15 is 15 percent of 1?(A) 0.001(B) 0.01 (C) 0.1(D) 1(E) 101.
thanks for the edit, thought i might be wrong as you chose 101 first! :)
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by sl750 » Tue Oct 11, 2011 9:37 am
romitvsingh wrote:What percent of 15 is 15 percent of 1?(A) 0.001(B) 0.01 (C) 0.1(D) 1(E) 101.
The "trick" is in interpreting the question. The calculation is pretty straight forward

What percent of some number is some other number is interpreted as

x/100*(some number) = some other number

here some number is 15, "is" represents equal to. The other number is also 15% of 1
x/100*15 = 15/100 or x=1
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by shankar.ashwin » Tue Oct 11, 2011 9:39 am
I found 1 and marked E :) Answer choices were in a line, got confused with which option was 1
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shankar.ashwin wrote:15% of 1 = 0.15

0.15 is 1% of 15 (0.15*100 = 15) D
romitvsingh wrote:What percent of 15 is 15 percent of 1?(A) 0.001(B) 0.01 (C) 0.1(D) 1(E) 101.
thanks for the edit, thought i might be wrong as you chose 101 first! :)
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