How do you find the percent notation for 0.05?

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Answer 1 · 2018-07-22T10:33:41

$0.05=5%$

$"to express a fraction as a percentage"$

$• " multiply the fraction by "100%$

$0.05=0.05xx100%=5%$

Answer 2 · 2018-07-22T16:22:49

$5%$

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

$5/100$ , and since our denominator is $100$ , the numerator is the percentage.

$0.05$ or $5/100$ is the same as $5%$ .

Hope this helps!