Meaning & use

75

number·Everyday

The whole number that comes after 74 and before 76, equal to three quarters of 100.

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She scored 75 out of 100 on the final exam.

The recipe calls for 75 grams of sugar and two eggs.

A note on using this word

Written as a decimal, .75 represents three quarters, or seventy-five hundredths, of a whole unit.

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