Finding Percents from Fractions

There are 4 trombones out of 25 instruments in the Landers town band. What percent of the instruments are trombones?

• 4%

• 20%

• 16%

• 25%

Convert 0.7 to a percent.

• 7%

• 0.7%

• 70%

• 700%

Convert 25% to a decimal.

• 0.4

• 0.04

• 2.5

• 0.25

What is the first step when finding what is 25% of 136?

• I multiply 25 times 136 and I get 3400.

• I take 136 and divide it by 100 and get a decimal. 136/100=1.36

• I change 25% into a decimal. 25/100=0.25

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175% is equivalent to —

• 0.175

• 17.5

• 1.75

• 175

Write the decimal as a percent. 
0.37

• 37%

• 3.7%

• .37%

• 75%

• 34%

• 43%

• 25%

• 62.5%

• 58%

• 80%

• 50%

What percent of the model is shaded?

• 36%

• 50%

• 45%

Express 56% as a decimal.

• 0.056

• 5.6

• 0.56

• 0.0056