Percents Part 5

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Lesson Summary:

In this lesson on percents, we learn how to write percents as fractions in even more complicated examples. The instructor shows multiple methods for converting percents to fractions, including reducing fractions and converting mixed numbers to improper fractions. By practicing these methods, we can become more skilled at converting percents to fractions and improving our overall understanding of percentages.

Lesson Description:

How to write percent as a fraction, part 3--even more complicated examples.

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Questions answered by this video:
  • How do you write a percent as a fraction?
  • How do you change a decimal percent into a fraction in lowest terms?
  • How can you write 14.2% as a fraction?
  • How do you convert 8.3% to a fraction?
  • How do you convert 2.12% to a fraction?
  • How do you convert 524% to a fraction?
  • What does per cent mean?
  • Why does % mean /100 or * 1/100?
  • How do you divide a decimal by 100?
  • Staff Review

    • Currently 4.0/5 Stars.
    This is yet another lesson on converting percents to fractions. What makes this lesson yet more difficult than the previous lessons are that the percents have decimals in them. These decimal percents must be converted to fractions in lowest terms. All steps involved are shown and explained in this great percent / fraction tutorial. There are several ways to convert and simplify each of the problems.