Fraction Decimal Percent Models

Which model is shaded to represent 23%?

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Answer explanation

23 squares are shaded in the model. There are 100 total squares in the model. The fraction of the model shaded is 23/100. A percent, or percentage, is a special fraction that always has 100 as the denominator. Because the bottom of a percent is always 100, we don’t even write it. We remove the 100 and put a % instead. 23/100 = 23%.

What percent is represented by the grid shown?

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6.4E

What fraction, decimal and percent does the following model represent?

• 6/10 and 6% and .06

• 3/5 and 60% and .6

• .06 and 6/10 and 6%

• .6 and 6% and 3/5

Select all fractions equivalent to 40%.

• 4/100

• 2/5

• 2/50

• 40/100

• 4/10

Which percent is equivalent or equal to the fraction in the picture?

• 89%

• 100%

• 189%

• 11%

Answer explanation

A percent, or percentage, is a special fraction that always has 100 as the denominator. Because the bottom of a percent is always 100, we don’t even write it. We remove the 100 and put a % instead. 89/100 = 89%.

What is 87% written as a fraction?

• 87

Write 45% as a simplified fraction.

Change .98 into a percent.

• 98%

• 9.8% 

• 980%

• .98%

In a neighborhood 12/40 of the kids are in middle school. What percent is equivalent to the number of neighborhood kids in middle school?

• 35%

• 24%

• 30%

Write in fraction form.

• 20/100

• 2/100

• 2/10

• 22/100

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CCSS.3.G.A.2