twenty percent
Standard restaurant tip
Twenty percent is one fifth of a whole, or twenty parts out of a hundred.
It appears constantly in discussions of tips, taxes, discounts, and statistics: I always leave twenty percent, Sales were down twenty percent from last year.
Like other percentage phrases, it functions as noun, adjective, or adverb depending on context.
- fifthFive's place in sequence
- one-fifthTwenty percent as fraction
- fractionPart divided by whole
- slicePortion cut off
- piece of the piePortion of something divided
portion · share · fair share · tip · gratuity · discount · markup · quintile · ratio · cut · stake · minority stake · partial · minority · segment · chunk · piece · reduction
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