# What does this confusing percent breakdown mean in this deed?
**URL:** https://www.mineralrightsforum.com/t/what-does-this-confusing-percent-breakdown-mean-in-this-deed/72442
**Category:** Ownership and Title
**Created:** [September 23, 2023, 2:23am UTC](https://www.mineralrightsforum.com/t/what-does-this-confusing-percent-breakdown-mean-in-this-deed/72442 "2023-09-23T02:23:14Z")
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### Author:  [@filmore](https://www.mineralrightsforum.com/u/filmore)
#### Post date: [September 23, 2023, 2:23am UTC](https://www.mineralrightsforum.com/t/what-does-this-confusing-percent-breakdown-mean-in-this-deed/72442/1 "2023-09-23T02:23:14Z")
I’m looking through some deeds for an estate and I can’t figure out this one. I think there are a few typos or incorrect percent notations in this interest breakdown:
“one-sixth (1/6) of forty percent (40%) of 3.125% percent or .0020833%”
Why do they say “3.125% percent”? Or should it have been “3.125%” or “3.125 percent”? What does it mean when there’s both the “%” symbol and “percent” (3.125 percent percent?)
And is the interest percentage .0020833% or .20833%? If it’s ‘.0020833%’, then that would mean a ‘.000020833’ fractional interest.
I would think the calculation should be:
(.4 \* .03125) / 6 = .0020833
That .0020833 fraction would be equivalent to .20833%.
Were there math errors in how this was written or is this normal nomenclature?
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### Author:  [@Steve\_Durrett](https://www.mineralrightsforum.com/u/Steve_Durrett)
#### Post date: [September 23, 2023, 5:49pm UTC](https://www.mineralrightsforum.com/t/what-does-this-confusing-percent-breakdown-mean-in-this-deed/72442/2 "2023-09-23T17:49:48Z")
Your math is correct. This may simply be a typo. If this is causing a problem, you should get a title attorney to file a curative memo.
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### Author:  [@Bob77](https://www.mineralrightsforum.com/u/Bob77)
#### Post date: [September 23, 2023, 11:53pm UTC](https://www.mineralrightsforum.com/t/what-does-this-confusing-percent-breakdown-mean-in-this-deed/72442/3 "2023-09-23T23:53:40Z")
The typo is 3.125% percent, they shouldn’t have added percent. But it’s rather straightforward, 3.125% is the interest conveyed = 0.03125 x 0.40 (40 percent) / 6 (1/6) = 0.0020833 aka 0.20833%. 0.20833 = 20.833%. You definitely don’t need a title attorney to file a curative memo.
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### Author:  [@JR.Ewingish](https://www.mineralrightsforum.com/u/JR.Ewingish)
#### Post date: [September 24, 2023, 12:08am UTC](https://www.mineralrightsforum.com/t/what-does-this-confusing-percent-breakdown-mean-in-this-deed/72442/4 "2023-09-24T00:08:45Z")
Yes, there are some typos and incorrect percent notations in the interest breakdown you provided.
- “3.125% percent” should be “3.125 percent” or simply “3.125%”.
- “one-sixth (1/6) of forty percent (40%) of 3.125% percent or .0020833%” should be “one-sixth (1/6) of forty percent (40%) of 3.125 percent, or 0.0020833%”.
The word “percent” means “out of one hundred”, so it is redundant to say “3.125% percent”. It is also incorrect to use both the % symbol and the word “percent” in the same notation.
The correct calculation for the interest percentage is:
```auto
(.4 * .03125) / 6 = .0020833
```
This is equivalent to 0.20833%.
Therefore, the interest percentage should be written as **0.20833%** , not **.0020833%**.
It is possible that the person who wrote the deed was simply making a careless mistake. However, it is also possible that they were not familiar with the correct nomenclature for percentages.
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### Author:  [@system](https://www.mineralrightsforum.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [December 22, 2023, 2:23am UTC](https://www.mineralrightsforum.com/t/what-does-this-confusing-percent-breakdown-mean-in-this-deed/72442/5 "2023-12-22T02:23:23Z")
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