percentages

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by tolmar » Tue Jul 22, 2008 1:52 am
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.