Given: 2 2/5%, how do you convert into a fraction in lowest terms and as a decimal?
1 Answer
Oct 30, 2016
Explanation:
A percent is a number given out of 100.
Write
Any fraction which has a denominator which is a power of 10 can be written as a decimal immediately.
The number of zeros indicates the number of decimal places.
(Make sure there is no decimal in the numerator first)
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