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Guest Posted 23 years ago
Grammar

Percent & Percentage

when do you use the word "percentage" and when do you use "percent"? For example: Data collected to differentiate the percentage allocated to maintenance Is this correct?
  

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per cent= an amount of a total divided into 100 hundred. percentage= any proportion or share in relation to a whole. ex I am one hundred per cent sure that this percentage is wrong.

— Maj

  • per cent= an amount of a total divided into 100 hundred.
  • percentage= any proportion or share in relation to a whole.
  • ex I am one hundred per cent sure that this percentage is wrong.
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per cent= an amount of a total divided into 100 hundred.
percentage= any proportion or share in relation to a whole.

ex I am one hundred per cent sure that this percentage is wrong.
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Yep Maj explained it perfectly! I've spent 10 mins trying to think of another example of this: 'plume' 'plumage' is the only thing I've come up with!
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Same logic as the following: rum / rummage, orphan / orphanage, host / hostage, post / postage, crib / cribbage

Or maybe not.
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