Tax is 6.25%. Represent this as a fraction and a decimal

Question

I have asked this question because I have never seen to understand this types of questions. Please help me.

Answer 1

Yeah, in my day this was a tough one to get used to too. I feel your pain.

 

The key is to understand what a percentage means. The "cent" part of the word means "hundred" the same way a century is a hundred years. The same way a penny is one cent, but it takes a hundred of them to make a dollar.

 

So the whole of anything is 100% of it. One hundred per cent brings hundred and cent together again.

 

So for your problem the tax is 6.25%. The whole price that's being taxed is 100%. As a fraction, the tax compared to the price is

 

6.25/100 <-- fraction

 

The decimal is probably more useful for calculating. To get it, just solve the fraction. Divide 6.25 by 100 and get 0.0625.

 

I hope that helps a bit. :-)

Answer 2

625/1000 is the fraction which can be reduced to 5/8

 

.0625 is the decimal.  To change any percent to a decimal, move the decimal point two places to the left.  If you only have one place as in this case, add a zero before the single digit