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Question
Express the first quantity as a percent of the second:
42 seconds, 6 minutes
Solution
42 seconds, 6 minutes = 42 seconds, 360 seconds ............(∵ 1 minute = 60 seconds)
= `42/360xx100=35/3`
= `11 2/3%`
= 11.67%
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