Math is hard

If anyone isn’t sure how to calculate this in the correct way, how I figured to do these kinds of percentage calculations that worked for me as a kid is:

Start by dividing 100 by 234,551,205 (the total number of cases).

That is to say split 100% into 234,551,205 equal parts. Each of those parts is the percentage representing one case (0.000000426346136%).

Now multiply one of those percentage parts by how many deaths there were:

0.000000426346136 x 4,797,176

This gives you the deaths as a percentage of the total cases, or approximately 2.04%

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A simpler example to demonstrate better:

You have a cake that is cut into 5 pieces. One person eats 2 pieces, so what percentage of the cake did they eat?

100 (the whole cake means 100% of it) divided by 5 (it’s split into 5 equal parts), multiplied by 2 (the number of parts eaten).

100 / 5 = 20 (one part is 20% of the cake)

20 x 2 = 40 (two parts of the cake is 40% of it)

The person ate 40% of the cake.

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