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Example Question #1 : How To Find A Fraction From A Percentage
How do you display 40% as a fraction?
To display a percentage as a fraction, divide the number of percent by 100 to give you
. Then simplify the fraction by dividing each number by 20, yielding .
Example Question #2 : How To Find A Fraction From A Percentage
What is 135% of 45?
This is just a simple problem of translation. We know that
and can translate the rest of the problem into this form: . Merely multiply and get the answer, namely .Example Question #1 : How To Find A Fraction From A Percentage
What is 12.5% expressed as a fraction?
is easier to simplify if you multiply top and bottom by 2.
Then it becomes
.Divide the numerator and denominator by 25 and you get
.Example Question #1 : How To Find A Fraction From A Percentage
What is
as a fraction?
To display a percentage as a fraction, divide the number of percent by 100 to give you
.Example Question #1 : How To Find A Fraction From A Percentage
Example Question #4 : How To Find A Fraction From A Percentage
Each year, the value of a car goes down by 10% of its previous year's value. What fraction of its original new value is the value of a three-year old car?
The reduction of the value of a car by 10% is the same as the car retaining 90%, or
, of its value.If a car is worth
when new, then it is worth after one year. Its value after two years will be times its value after one year, or . After three years, it will be times its value after two years, or .
Example Question #1 : How To Find A Fraction From A Percentage
Convert
to a fraction.
To convert a percentage into a fraction, remove the percentage sign and divide the number by 100.
Example Question #1 : How To Find A Fraction From A Percentage
What fraction represents
?
When finding the fraction from a percent, express that value over
.We now have
.
We simplify it by dividing top and bottom by
.
Final answer is
.Example Question #1 : How To Find A Fraction From A Percentage
Convert
into a reduced fraction.
First, we take that value and divide over
.We have
.
Next, since there is a decimal present, we shift that decimal one place so we have a whole number. Since we did that to the top, we add one zero to the bottom since we shifted one place. We have
.
To reduce, we divide top and bottom by
to get
as the final answer.
Example Question #3101 : Algebra 1
Convert
into a reduced fraction.
We take that value and divide that over
.We get
.
Next we can reduce by taking one zero from top and bottom and also divide top and bottom by
.
This gives us an answer of
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