Business Description
It's denoted by the symbol'' or percent or per cent, principally, 10 is the same as 10 percent or 10 per cent. The word percent has its origin in Europe and Latin America where it was used as Per Centum and Per Cento. With the preface of the decimal system in the early twentieth century, the operation of percent came the norm; per cent means per hundred. Veritably frequently there's a debate on how it's written, whether it's percent or per cent? Well in American English it's percent whereas the British use per cent.
