Name: charles

Who is asking: Other
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Question:
What is one percent of one billion?

One percent is "one per one-hundred", that is ¹/₁₀₀. Your email address indicates that you are from the United States so a billion is 1,000,000,000. (In Britain a billion is 1,000,000,000,000.) Hence one percent of a billion is

 ¹/₁₀₀ 1,000,000,000 = 10,000,000