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How popular was character X in the 1950s, represented as a percentage
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10 Dec 2021, 06:18
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How popular was character X in the 1950s, represented as a percentage of X’s popularity in the 1980s?
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125%
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15 Dec 2021, 02:53
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27 Dec 2021, 13:44
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The question can be considered to be asking us to express popularity ratings in the 1950s as a percentage of the popularity ratings in 1980s.
To solve, let us first consider that generally, in a sentence that contains variables k and y, if k is the subject of the question and before the word 'is' and y is the object after the word 'of', the formula for k as a percentage of y is given by
(k/y) * 100.
Thus, for the above, we have
(0.5/0.4) * 100 = 125%
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To solve, let us first consider that generally, in a sentence that contains variables k and y, if k is the subject of the question and before the word 'is' and y is the object after the word 'of', the formula for k as a percentage of y is given by
(k/y) * 100.
Thus, for the above, we have
(0.5/0.4) * 100 = 125%
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