Question

What percent of 72 is 12

Answer 1

16.67 is the answer.

Answer 2

One way to solve this is to set up a proportion:

some number compared to 100 is equal to 12 compared to 72.

The proportion looks like this:
$\frac{x}{100} = \frac{12}{72}$

solving for x we get 16.6666666 repeating which is 16$\frac{2}{3}$%