Meaning of percent

The meaning of percent and how to read percent is the goal of this lesson.

Look at the following 3 tables:

Each table has 100 boxes. In table 1, only 10 boxes out one hundred boxes have an x.

We say 10 % of the figure have an x. The symbol " % " is read as "percent" and percent means "per hundred" or "out of one hundred"

For 10 %, we can also say that 10 per hundred boxes have an x.

In table 2, 40 boxes out of one hundred boxes have an x. Therefore, we can write 40 %

In table 3, only 2 boxes have an x. Therefore we can write 2 %