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PERCENTS, FRACTIONS, AND DECIMALS

Percents are all around us. Businesses use percents to advertise sales. Banks use percent to offer loans and savings. First we’ll look at the meaning of percent. We will print out the document, “Squares to Use for Percent” to display percents.

Percents are just a special way to express fractions and decimals. Fractions may be expressed as percents by finding an equivalent fraction in hundredths. We’ll look at writing fractions as percents.

We can also express improper fractions as percents. These percents will be percents greater than 100%.

Sometimes we must compute with percents less than one. Percents less than one can be written as a fraction or a decimal. One-tenth of a percent (0.1%) would be 1/1000 as a fraction and .001 as a decimal.

Percents can be expressed as decimals or fractions. Fractions can be expressed as decimals or percents. Decimals can be expressed as fractions or percent. We will conclude with looking at the connections between percents, fractions, and decimals.

Introduction to Percent