What is the ratio of a square?
The answer depends on ratio of a square to what or between what parts of a square!
What is the ratio of 88 to 100?
This can be written as 88:100 or 88/100 and is numerically equivalent to 0.88.
A special feature of it being out of 100 means that it can be written as 88% because % is Percent (Per-Out of Cent-Hundred).