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How to Convert a Percent to an Odds

Ratio
By Michael Keenan; Updated March 13, 2018

Percentages measure the successful

Here's a Calculator to Help You per 100 tries. For example,
attempts
a 20 percent chance of success means
you will succeed 20 times out of 100.
Odds ratios are reported as the
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 of failures
number 0 per success. For
example, an odds ratio of 4-to-1
+ - x /
means that four failures occur for

. = each
C success, or one success per ve
attempts. If you have two
probabilities, one measured as a
percentage and the other as an odds ratio, you may have to convert to compare the relative
probabilities.

Divide the percentage by 100 to convert from a percentage to a decimal. For example, if you have 40
percent, divide 40 by 100 to get 0.4.

Divide 1 by the percentage expressed as a decimal. In this example, divide 1 by 0.4 to get 2.5.

Subtract 1 from the result to nd the rst number of the odds ratio. In this example, subtract 1 from
2.5 to get 1.5.

Substitute the result in for X in the odds ratio X-to-1. In this example, substitute in 1.5 to nd that 40
percent converts to an odds ratio of 1.5-to-1.

References
University of Delaware: Ratios, Proportions, Percentages and Rates
The Poker Bank: Ratio - Percentage Conversion Table

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