Your other suggestion of by one hundred times is definitely better than a. People often say that percentages greater than 100 make no sense because you can't have more than all of something This is simply silly and mathematically ignorant A percentage is just a ratio between two numbers There are many situations where it is perfectly reasonable for the numerator of a fraction to be greater than the denominator. If soap a kills 100% and soap b kills 99.99% of bacteria, the remaining amount of bacteria after applying a (0%) is infinitely smaller than the remaining amount of bacteria after applying b (0.01%)
Therefore a is much, much better You can see from these examples that 0.01% gap behaves differently across the percentage scale. ‘100% correct’ is grammatically correct in this context, though the organization of the sentence is a bit atypical for many more formal dialects of english and may be difficult for some people to understand without having to think a bit (i would instead restructure things as suggested at the end of astralbee’s answer as that resolves both. Is there a word for majority wherein someone or something gets all the votes cast? The reason is that when using percentages we are referring to the difference between the final amount and the initial amount as a fraction (or percent) of the original amount. You miss 100 percent of the shots you don't take
Wayne gretzky, relating the comment of one of his early coaches who, frustrated by his lack of scoring in an important game told him, 'you miss 100% of the shots you never take.'. Is it less than $100 or under $100 Is it more than $100 or is it over $100 Ask question asked 14 years, 2 months ago modified 14 years, 2 months ago Numbers with more than 100 zeros ask question asked 4 years, 11 months ago modified 4 years, 11 months ago So if you're saying 5 in 100 people are born blind, that's 5 per hundred people are born blind, (5%) where as saying %5 would be per hundred 5 people are blind, which makes less sense.
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