What's the difference between percentage and percentage?

Percent is a method to express the numerical value of proportion and fraction, and percentage is the correct unit to express the "arithmetic gap" between different percentages, which are two different concepts.

1, percentage

Percentages are usually called percentages or percentages, such as 25% for 25%, or 25/ 100, 0.25. Percentage is often used in life, for example, it is often used to forecast the weather. Common ones are "the probability of rain tomorrow is 20%"; "The probability of fog tonight is 50%" and so on.

2. Percentage points

Percent is the correct unit to represent the "arithmetic gap" between different percentages. For example, 0.25 is 0. 1 more than 0. 15, which means that 25% is more than 10% 15 percentage points.

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Percentage in daily life

1, the weather forecast program on TV will report the weather and precipitation probability that night and tomorrow.

The probability of precipitation tonight is 20%.

2. Macro description of the experimental subjects when releasing the survey results.

For example, an experiment concluded that the IQ of people who often read short messages would drop 10%.

3. Used when calculating interest, tax and profit.

For example, the announcement issued by the central bank shows that since1October 24, the interest rates of RMB loans and deposits of financial institutions have been further lowered by 0.25 percentage points, 65,438. Among them, the one-year loan benchmark interest rate was lowered by 0.25 percentage point to 4.35%, and the one-year deposit interest rate was lowered by 0.25 percentage point to 1.5%. ?

4, said something has the ability of a certain property or the probability of a certain property.

For example, oil yield = oil quality/total physical quality × 100%, and germination rate = germination number/total number of seeds × 100%.

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