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Among a group of business leaders, believe that poor math and science education in the U.S. will lead to higher unemployment rates.
Convert the percent to: ⓐ a fraction ⓑ a decimal
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| Write as a ratio with denominator 100. |
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| Change the fraction to a decimal by dividing the numerator by the denominator. |
Convert the percent to: ⓐ a fraction and ⓑ a decimal
Twitter's share of web traffic jumped when one celebrity tweeted live on air.
Convert the percent to: ⓐ a fraction andⓑ a decimal
The U.S. Census estimated that in of the population of Boston age or older have a bachelor's or higher degrees.
There are four suits of cards in a deck of cards—hearts, diamonds, clubs, and spades. The probability of randomly choosing a heart from a shuffled deck of cards is Convert the percent to:
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| Write as a ratio with denominator 100. | |
| Simplify. |
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| Change the fraction to a decimal by dividing the numerator by the denominator. |
Convert the percent to: ⓐ a fraction, and ⓑ a decimal
The probability that it will rain Monday is
Convert the percent to: ⓐ a fraction, and ⓑ a decimal
The probability of getting heads three times when tossing a coin three times is
To convert a decimal to a percent , remember that percent means per hundred. If we change the decimal to a fraction whose denominator is it is easy to change that fraction to a percent.
Convert each decimal to a percent: ⓐ ⓑ
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| Write as a fraction. The denominator is 100. | |
| Write this ratio as a percent. |
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| The denominator is 100. | |
| Write this ratio as a percent. |
To convert a mixed number to a percent, we first write it as an improper fraction.
Convert each decimal to a percent: ⓐ ⓑ
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| Write as a fraction. | |
| Write as an improper fraction. The denominator is 100. | |
| Write this ratio as a percent. |
Notice that since the result is more than
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| Write as a fraction. The denominator is 1,000. | |
| Divide the numerator and denominator by 10, so that the denominator is 100. | |
| Write this ratio as a percent. |
Let's summarize the results from the previous examples in [link] so we can look for a pattern.
| Decimal | Percent |
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Do you see the pattern? To convert a decimal to a percent, we move the decimal point two places to the right and then add the percent sign.
[link] uses the decimal numbers in [link] and shows visually to convert them to percents by moving the decimal point two places to the right and then writing the sign.
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