What is a percent? doesn't it mean a fraction out of 100?

You have a 32-foot fence around a square garden. there are 4 equal sections. you paint 13 of one section of the fence. what fraction of the fence did you paint? you have a 32-foot fence around a square garden. there are 4 equal sections. you paint 13 of one section of the fence. what fraction of the fence did you paint?

Solve each quadratic equation by factoring and using the zero product property. 14x - 49 = x^2

From the beginning of the day the temperature rose 15 degrees so that by 4 pm it was 87 degrees. what was the temperature at the start of the day