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What is 99 Percent of 1?

99% of 1 = 0.99

Result
0.99
Remaining
0.01
99% as decimal
0.99
1 + 99%
1.99

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How to work it out

  1. Turn the percentage into a decimal: 99 ÷ 100 = 0.99
  2. Multiply: 0.99 × 1 = 0.99
  3. Check: Work backwards: 0.99 ÷ 1 × 100 = 99%.

Another method. As a proportion of part to whole: 99/100 = part/1, so part = 99 × 1 ÷ 100 = 0.99. Both methods always give the same answer.

In a spreadsheet: =99%*1. Forgetting to divide the percentage by 100 makes the answer 100 times too big. Note that x% of y always equals y% of x.

What the result means

0.99 is the 99% share of 1. The remaining 1% is 0.01, and the two parts add back up to 1.

Discounts: 99% off an item priced $1 saves $0.99, so you pay $0.01.

Adding and taking away 99%

Increasing 1 by 99% gives 1.99 and decreasing it by 99% gives 0.01. These do not cancel out: raising 1 by 99% and then lowering the result by 99% ends at 0.0199, because the second 99% is taken of a bigger number.

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The other way round: 1% of 99. 99% of 1 and 1% of 99 are always equal (both are 99 × 1 ÷ 100 = 0.99), so you can swap the numbers when one order is easier to work out in your head.

Practice

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18% of 66 = 11.88

2% of 18
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2% of 18 = 0.36

56% of 55
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56% of 55 = 30.8

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1% of 67 = 0.67

41% of 54
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Questions

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0.01. Taking 99% off leaves 1% of 1.

What is 1 plus 99%?

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