Understanding Proportions: Fractions, Decimals, and Percentages

What is the main reason percentages, decimals, and fractions can represent the same value?

• They are all types of numbers.

• They all describe proportions.

• They are all used in exams.

• They are all easy to convert.

What is the best way to memorize common fraction, decimal, and percentage conversions?

• Ignore the simplified versions.

• Use a calculator for each conversion.

• Create a table and understand the pattern.

• Learn them all by heart.

Which of the following is equivalent to 1/5?

• 0.2 and 20%

• 0.1 and 10%

• 0.4 and 40%

• 0.3 and 30%

If you know the value of 1/8, how can you find the value of 3/8?

• Add 0.125 three times.

• Subtract 0.125 from 1.

• Divide 1/8 by 3.

• Multiply 1/8 by 3.

What is the decimal equivalent of 3/8?

• 0.625

• 0.25

• 0.375

• 0.5