Changing decimals to percentages using fractions

There are many ways to change decimals to percentages. You can use fractions to help you make the conversion.

Example:  What is 0.75 expressed as a percentage?

Put the decimal in a place value table:

Look at the decimal shown above, 0.75
In the table we can read it as 0 units, and .
We can also read the figures after the decimal point as one number - seventy-five. Combine this with the heading of the last column that contains a number. With the decimal 0.75 the last number 5 is in the hundredths, , column. The decimal 0.75 is the same as the fraction .

To convert this to a percentage remember that per cent means 'out of 100'.
means 75 out of 100 which is exactly the same as 75%.

Here are a few more examples:

      The decimal 0.3 is which is the same as (30 out of 100) = 30%
      The decimal 0.06 is (6 out of 100) = 6%
      The decimal 0.12 is (12 out of 100) = 12%
      The decimal 1 is which is the same as (100 out of 100) = 100%