Decimals to Percents and Percents to Decimals

Write 0.39 as a percent.

• 39

• 3.9%

• 39%

• .0039%

When converting decimals to percents, move the decimal:

• Two places to the left.

• Two places to the right.

• Two places up.

• Two places down.

Change 0.384 to a percent.

• 3.84%

• 384%

• 38.4%

• 38.4

Change .009 to a percent.

• 0.9%

• 0.09%

• 9%

• 9.00%

Write the decimal as a percent. 
0.37

• 37%

• 3.7%

• .37%

What is 150% as a decimal?

• 1.5

• 150

• 0.15

• 15.0

In Dr. Pepper (D.P) the D is on the LEFT to remind us that the decimal moves LEFT when we want to turn a percent into a DECIMAL.

Turn 115% into a Decimal.

• 0.115

• 1.15

• 11.5

• 115

What is 12.5% as a decimal?

• 12.5

• 1.25

• 0.125

• 1250.0

Match the Decimal to its Percent.

• 0.0025

• 12.5%

• 1.25

• 0.3

• 30%

• 125%

• 0.125

• 0.25%

• 0.25

• 25%

Turn this percent into a decimal:

0.15%

• 15

• 1.5

• 0.0015

• 0.015