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What is 15% of 200?
Answer
30
15% of 200 = 0.15 × 200 = 30. Percentages are ubiquitous in real-world applications including financial calculations, discounts, tax calculations, medical dosing, and statistical analysis across business and science.
💡 Did you know?
The word 'percent' comes from the Latin 'per centum' meaning 'per hundred.' Medieval merchants used this concept before it had an official symbol (%).
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