Question

What percent of 72 is 12

Answer 1

one way to solve this is to set up a proportion:

some number compared to 100 is equal to 12 compared to 72.

The proportion looks like this:

`(x)/(100) = (12)/(72)`

solving for x we get 16.6666666 repeating which is 16
`(2)/(3)`%

Answer 2

16.67 is the answer.