Percents Greater Than 100 or Less Than 1

Percents Greater Than 100 or Less Than 1

How can you express percents great than 100?

How can you express percents greater than 100?

Jan and Kim built model cars for a science project. Kim's car traveled 140% far as Jan's car. How can you write 140% as a fraction and as a decimal?

How can you express percents greater than 100?

-A percent compares a number to 100. The distance Jan's car traveled represents the whole or 100%

-Kim's car traveled 140% as far. Expressed as a fraction, a percent greater than 100 will always be an improper fraction.

Percents greater than 100 will always have a decimal value greater than 1.

 $140\%\ =\ \frac{7}{5}\ =\ 1.4$  

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How comfortable are you with percents over 100 or less than 1?

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