COMMON FRACTIONS DECIMALS & PERCENTS

COMMON FRACTIONS DECIMALS & PERCENTS

Percents, Decimals, & Fractions

Multiple Choice

 $\%$  What does "percent" mean?

• a number

• Per hundred

• unit rate

Multiple Choice

What is 79% as a fraction?

• 7/9

• 79/79

• 79/100

• 1/3

Changing Percents to Fraction

-Put the Percent in the numerator

-Put 100 in the denominator

-You can reduce the fraction too!

Reducing Percents

• If the fraction can be reduced:

• Divide top and bottom by a common factor

• (Or use 2^nd PRB in our calculator)

Multiple Choice

Write 50% as a fraction in simplest form.

• $\frac{5}{10}$

• $\frac{2}{3}$

• $\frac{50}{100}$
  

• $\frac{1}{2}$
  

Multiple Choice

The fraction

 $\frac{60}{100}$   can be divided by?

• 8

• 12

• 3

• 20

Multiple Choice

Write 60% as a fraction in simplest form.

• 0.6

• $\frac{6}{10}$

• $\frac{3}{5}$

• $\frac{60}{100}$

Multiple Choice

36% can be written as...

• $\frac{36}{100}$

• $\frac{9}{25}$

• $\frac{18}{50}$

• all of these

Poll

How would you rate your understanding of changing percents to fractions?