Percent<span> simply means "per hundred" and the symbol used </span>to<span> express </span>percentage<span> is %. One </span>percent<span> (or 1%) is one hundredth of the total or whole and is therefore</span>calculated<span> by dividing the total or whole number by 100. </span>To calculate<span> the </span>percentage<span>difference between two numbers, the same basic calculations are used</span>
