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3 days ago · A percentage (%) is essentially also a fraction with the denominator 100. Namely, a percentage is the quantity by (per) the hundred (centage). For example, 2%, read "percent", is two every hundred. When we have 100 liters of water, 2% is 2 liters. If we have 200 liters of water, then 2% is 4 liters.
3 days ago · Stock A over the past 20 years had an average return of 10 percent, with a standard deviation of 20 percentage points (pp) and Stock B, over the same period, had average returns of 12 percent but a higher standard deviation of 30 pp. On the basis of risk and return, an investor may decide that Stock A is the safer choice, because Stock B's ...
1 day ago · The 2.8-percentage-point increase since that low represents a net increase of about seven million adults without health insurance." [46] The US Census Bureau reported that 28.5 million people (8.8%) did not have health insurance in 2017, [47] down from 49.9 million (16.3%) in 2010.
3 days ago · Tin is a chemical element; it has symbol Sn (from Latin stannum) and atomic number 50. A silvery-colored metal, tin is soft enough to be cut with little force, [10] and a bar of tin can be bent by hand with little effort. When bent, the so-called "tin cry" can be heard as a result of twinning in tin crystals. [11]
5 days ago · In general, most Wikipedia entries cover both positives and negatives and link to mostly credible sources of information to support their claims. Since bias varies from entry to entry and line to line, we rate them least biased as many perspectives are found on Wikipedia; however, each entry may convey the bias of the top editors.
3 days ago · Copper is a chemical element; it has symbol Cu (from Latin cuprum) and atomic number 29. It is a soft, malleable, and ductile metal with very high thermal and electrical conductivity. A freshly exposed surface of pure copper has a pinkish-orange color.
1 day ago · Democratic. The 1960 United States presidential election was the 44th quadrennial presidential election. It was held on Tuesday, November 8, 1960. In a closely contested election, Democratic Senator John F. Kennedy defeated the incumbent Republican Vice President Richard Nixon. This was the first election in which 50 states participated ...
