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# Converting percents and fractions review

Review writing percents as fractions and fractions as percents.  Then, try some practice problems.

## Writing percents as fractions

Percent means 'per hundred.' So, we can replace a percent sign with 'per hundred.'
Example
Let's write 15, percent as a fraction.
15, percent, equals, 15, start text, space, p, e, r, space, h, u, n, d, r, e, d, end text, equals, start fraction, 15, divided by, 100, end fraction
Want to learn more about writing percents as fractions? Check out this video.

### Practice

Problem 1A
Convert 65, percent to a fraction in simplest form.

Want to try more problems like this? Check out this exercise.

## Writing fractions as percents

Percent means 'per hundred.' So, we want to create an equivalent fraction with 100 as the denominator.
Example
Let's write start fraction, 4, divided by, 5, end fraction as a percent.
The key here is to turn start fraction, 4, divided by, 5, end fraction to a fraction with a denominator of 100. To do this, we need to know what times 5 gives us 100:
5, times, start color #11accd, 20, end color #11accd, equals, 100
Now we're ready to convert start fraction, 4, divided by, 5, end fraction to a percent:
start fraction, 4, divided by, 5, end fraction, equals, start fraction, 4, times, start color #11accd, 20, end color #11accd, divided by, 5, times, start color #11accd, 20, end color #11accd, end fraction, equals, start fraction, 80, divided by, 100, end fraction
start fraction, 80, divided by, 100, end fraction, equals, 80, start text, space, p, e, r, space, h, u, n, d, r, e, d, end text, equals, 80, percent

### Practice

Problem 2A
Convert start fraction, 1, divided by, 10, end fraction to a percent.
percent

Want to try more problems like this? Check out this exercise.

## Want to join the conversation?

• this website get really confusing sometimes
(42 votes)
• I know it really does but you just need to get to use it
(8 votes)
• Can you have a decimal point for the dominator?
(18 votes)
• Yes, it's possible to have a decimal in the denominator, but a fraction like this isn't fully simplified. To simplify, we move the decimal point the same number of places to the right in numerator and denominator to get rid of the decimals, then we reduce as usual from there.

For example, 2.4/0.18 is equivalent to 240/18, which then reduces to the improper fraction 40/3 or the mixed number 13 and 1/3.
(2 votes)
• i'm having hard time with this.
(5 votes)
• Hi Nina! This is quite simple once you understand it.
So basically lets say the percentage is 30%
Converting it to decimals would be 0.30, or 0.3 if you simplify it because as you should know the second digit wafter the decimal point is the hundreths place.
For fractions it would be 30/100, or 3/10 simplified because 30% of 100 would be 30 parts of 100!

Hope this helps! You can always comment any more questions you have!
(21 votes)
• to find the simplest fraction you have to dive the numerator and denominator as much as you can until you cannot find a common factor
(8 votes)
• Why didn't 175% not need a decimal before the 7 and after the 1.
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• 7/4 is the same as 175/100 (4x25 = 100) & (7x25 = 175). As we know per cent means per hundred. Since we converted 7/4 to hundredths, we simply need to remove the /100 and add the percent sign (%).

If you were to write it with the decimal point like this 1.75%, and then convert back to a fraction, the fraction would be 7/400.
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• not a question but hi everyone
(6 votes)
• even numbers is the quickest way to do the simplest form
(6 votes)
• Why is this is hard
(5 votes)
• everybody is different. Just try your best and believe in yourself!
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• why so dang hard
(4 votes)
• did you know that 1 x 1 equals 1
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