per cent
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per·cent
also per cent (pər-sĕnt′)per cent
(pə ˈsɛnt)percentage
per centWhen you express an amount as a percentage of a whole, you say how many parts the amount would have if the whole had 100 equal parts. You write a percentage as a number followed by per cent or by the symbol %. So, for example, if there are 1000 people living in a village and 250 of them are children, you say that 25 per cent or 25% of the people in the village are children.
Per cent is sometimes written as one word, especially in American English.
You also use percentage to show approximately how large or small an amount is as a proportion of a whole. For example, you can say that an amount is a large percentage or a small percentage of the whole.
When percentage is used like this in front of the plural form of a noun, you use a plural form of a verb after it.
When percentage is used in front of a singular form or an uncountable noun, you use a singular form of a verb after it.
per cent
[pəˈsent] N → por ciento20 per cent → el 20 por ciento
it has increased by eight per cent → ha aumentado (en) un ocho por ciento
there's a ten per cent discount → hay un descuento del diez por cien(to), hay un diez por ciento de descuento
the population is 90 per cent Roman Catholic → el 90 por ciento de la población es católica
a half (a) per cent cut in interest rates → un recorte de un cero coma cinco por ciento en los tipos de interés
100 per cent → cien por cien
he's not feeling a hundred per cent today → hoy no se encuentra al cien por cien
per cent
percent [pɜːrˈsɛnt]fifty per cent → cinquante pour cent
by 15 per cent → de 15 pour cent
to fall by five per cent → baisser de cinq pour cent
to rise five per cent → augmenter de cinq pour cent