Understanding Percentages and Their Calculations

What is the relationship between percentages, fractions, and decimals?

• Decimals are only used in percentages.

• Fractions and decimals are unrelated to percentages.

• They are different ways to represent the same value.

• They are completely unrelated.

How can you express 40% as a decimal?

• 0.04

• 4.0

• 0.4

• 40.0

What operation can replace the word 'of' when calculating percentages?

• Division

• Subtraction

• Addition

• Multiplication

What is the decimal representation of 3%?

• 0.003

• 3.0

• 0.03

• 0.3

Why does it make sense that 3% of 88 is 2.64?

• Because 88 is more than 100.

• Because 3% of 100 is 3, and 88 is less than 100.

• Because 3% of 100 is 3, and 88 is more than 100.

• Because 3% of 88 is exactly 3.