What is 1 minus 1 percent?

Here we will explain how to calculate the answer to: 1 minus 1 percent. To find the answer, we first calculate what 1 percent of 1 is, and then we deduct that amount from 1 to get the answer.

To get the 1 percent from any number such as 1, we multiply the number by 1 and then divide that answer by 100. Thus, to find 1 percent of 1, we do this:

(1 x 1)/100 = 0.01

Next, we simply subtract 0.01 from 1 like this:

1 - 0.01 = 0.99.

Therefore, as illustrated and calculated above, the answer to "What is 1 minus 1 percent?" is as follows:

0.99

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