Percent Chart Page 3
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To represent a
fraction as a
percent, first
change the fraction to a decimal and then
convert the decimal to a percent. In most cases
you will have to round off the percent to a
specified place value.
For example, supposed we are asked to write
3
the fraction
as a percent rounded to the
16
nearest tenth.
We first convert the fraction to a decimal by
dividing the numerator by the denominator.
÷
=
3 16 0.1875
We
do not
want to round off this result. We
are being asked to round off to the nearest
tenth only after we have written our percent.
Now we convert 0.1875 to a percent by moving
the decimal point two places to the right.
18.75%
Finally we round our percent to the nearest
tenth.
18.8%
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