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Percentages, Fractions and Decimals

Percentages, fractions and decimals are essentially the same idea in different forms. A fraction is one whole number divided by
another whole number eg.2/5, and so is a percentage, except that the denominator is always 100 eg. 40%=40/100. To change
any fraction or percentage into a decimal we actually carry out the division, so40%=40/100 =0.4.

The table below shows some examples of this equivalence.

Fraction Decimal Percentage,%

2/25 0.08 8

7/50 0.14 14

3/10 0.3=0.30 30

3/8 0.375 37.5

7/20 0.35 35

1/1 1 100

47/40 1.175 117.6

2=2/1 2 200

3/2 1.5 150

Several things can be noted about the numbers in the table:

A whole number is a fraction since we can write for example, 2 as 2/1.

A percentage greater than 100% is possible – the numerator is greater than the denominator.

Given a percentage we can find the fraction by writing the percentage/100 and the decimal by carrying out the
division.

Given a decimal we can find the percentage by writing the multiplying by 100.

Given a fraction we can find the decimal by carrying out the division and the percentage by multiplying by 100.

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