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Guest  #1653  Wed, 02 Jul 03 08:51 PM
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?
  
maj  #1658  Wed, 02 Jul 03 09:29 PM
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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hitchhiker  #1697  Fri, 04 Jul 03 01:38 AM
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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