How do you find the percent notation for 0.05?

2 Answers
Jul 22, 2018

0.05=5%

Explanation:

to express a fraction as a percentage

multiply the fraction by 100%

0.05=0.05×100%=5%

Jul 22, 2018

5%

Explanation:

This is read as five hundredths, meaning, as a fraction, this will have a denominator of 100.

With this in mind, we can write this as

5100, and since our denominator is 100, the numerator is the percentage.

0.05 or 5100 is the same as 5%.

Hope this helps!