If you are a runner, you want to follow the 10% rule. You should never increase your weekly mileage by more than 10% from week to week.
Some people believe that we only use 10% of our brains. Actually this is a misconception. We use all of our brain.
In some states, you must pay a 10% income tax.
On many TV show competitions, only the top 10% of the contestants move to the next level.
So what exactly is 10%, and what does it represent?
You can think of 10% as one part of ten parts.
For example, if you had 10 glasses of water, one glass of water would represent 10 percent, or one-tenth.
You can also write it as a decimal.
Do you need a visual of 10%? It would look like this!
What would it look like if you transferred 10% of the liquid into another container?
It would look like this!
And what would it look like if you transferred 10% of the liquid in the second container?
What would 10% of 10% look like?
Here is an example :
In an ecosystem, approximately 10% of an organism's energy is transferred to another organism when it is eaten.
The flow of energy from one organism to another is visualized in a food chain.