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Per cent vs. Percent
Per cent
Examples:
Interest rates rose to 3 per cent last month.The company aims for a 25 per cent profit increase.Only 10 per cent of students passed the exam.
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Percent
/pəˈsent/Examples:
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This word has no antonymsWays to tell them apart:
- Per cent is the original British spelling, derived from the Latin phrase meaning out of every hundred.
- Percent is the American English spelling of the same concept.
- Both words denote the same meaning: a part of a whole expressed in hundredths.
- In modern writing, percent is more commonly used in both British and American English, although per cent is still often seen in the UK.
- Remember, percent and per cent represent the same numerical concept, just different regional spellings.
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