Decimals Percents and Fractions

When converting percents to decimals, move the decimal two places:

• Two places to the right.

• Two places down.

• Three places to the right.

• Two places to the left.

Write 57% as a decimal.

• 5.7

• 0.057

• 57

• 0.57

Express 2/5 as a decimal.

• 0.2

• 0.4

• 0.5

• 0.7

Tags

CCSS.7.NS.A.2D

CCSS.8.NS.A.1

Write 3/5 as a percent.

• 3%

• 30%

• 5%

• 60%

Write 43/50 as a percent.

• 43%

• 50%

• 86%

• 12%

Write the percent as a decimal:
135%

• 13.5
• .0135
• 0.135
• 1.35

Express 11/50 as a percent.

• 220%

• 22%

• 50%

• 55%

Express 0.87 as a percent.

• 0.87%

• 8.7%

• 87%

• 870%

How do you change a fraction to a decimal?

• Add

• Subtract

• Multiply

• Divide

What percent is equivalent to 3/5? You can do this a couple of different ways! Take the top number divided by the bottom number OR convert 3/5 to hundreds! Yes WHAT multiplied by 5 is 100? Take THAT number multiplied by 3. Yes, by 3!!! You could also make 3/5 into the fraction 6/10. 

• 6%

• 60% 

• 30%

• 35%