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What is as a percent?
Explanation
To change a decimal into a percent, start by multiplying the decimal by 100.
Then add a percent sign to the end of the number.
What is as a percent?
Explanation
To change a decimal into a percent, start by multiplying the decimal by 100.
Then add a percent sign to the end of the number.
Change to a decimal.
Explanation
To change a percent to a decimal, drop the "%" sign then divide by 100.
What is expressed as a percentage rounded to the nearest hundredth?
Explanation
Percents are numbers expressing parts of :
is the same thing as saying
parts of
or
The simplest way to convert a decimal to a percentage is to move the decimal place over two places to the right. We move the decimal point to after the hundredths place because we are rewriting the decimal as a portion of . Therefore:
In everyday usage, percents usually are between and
. However, when a number is greater than
, it's corresponding percentage is going to be greater than
. The next step of this problem is to round the percentage we have to the nearest hundredth. The number in the thousandths place is
, therefore, we're going to round up:
is therefore our final answer.
What is expressed as a percentage rounded to the nearest hundredth?
Explanation
Percents are numbers expressing parts of :
is the same thing as saying
parts of
or
The simplest way to convert a decimal to a percentage is to move the decimal place over two places to the right. We move the decimal point to after the hundredths place because we are rewriting the decimal as a portion of . Therefore:
In everyday usage, percents usually are between and
. However, when a number is greater than
, it's corresponding percentage is going to be greater than
. The next step of this problem is to round the percentage we have to the nearest hundredth. The number in the thousandths place is
, therefore, we're going to round up:
is therefore our final answer.
Change to a decimal.
Explanation
To change a percent to a decimal, drop the "%" sign then divide by 100.
Convert to a percentage.
Explanation
The correct answer is 20%. This can be obtained by first converting the fraction to a decimal and then multiplying by 100 to get a percentage.
What is as a percent?
Explanation
To change a fraction into a percent, you need to first change the fraction into a decimal.
Dividing 12 by 13 gives the following:
Now, to change the decimal to a percent, start by multiplying the decimal by 100.
Then, just add a percent sign.
What is of
?
Explanation
Convert 1% to a fraction by dividing 100. One percent is equivalent to:
Multiply this with two, and the answer is:
If students out of a class of
are wearing blue, what percentage of the class is NOT wearing blue?
Explanation
If of the students are wearing blue then that means
of them are not wearing blue. Because,
Now to find the percentage we divide the number of students not wearing blue, by the total number of students in the class and then multiply by .
Thus,