The nurse is calculating medications using percentages. Which of the following is accurate?
A) The term percentage refers to the number per 10.
B) Percent has specific units of measure.
C) To convert percentage to a fraction the percent number becomes the numerator.
D) The denominator in a percentage is always 100.
D
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The term percentage refers to the number per hundred. Therefore, 20% equals 20 per hundred. Percent has no specific units of measure. It is actually a ratio. To convert from percentage to a fraction, the percent number becomes the numerator, and 100 is always the denominator.
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