How is one eighth written as a percent

Question

How is one eighth written as a percent

Answer 1

1/8 as a percent

 

this fraction reads 1 divided by 8-- so divide 1 by eight and you get 0.125-- move decimal over two places to the right and you get 12.5% :)

Answer 2

Here's another way to look at it.

Percent means 'out of one hundred' so.....

think of it like this...

one out of eight is how many out of 100?

 1/8    =     ?/100

 

From here you can multiply both sides by 100. On the right side, the 100 on the top will cancel the 100 on the bottom of the fraction because 100/100 = 1 and 1 times anything doesn't change that thing's value. So ?/100  times 100 = just ?

On the left side of the equation, we get

100 times 1/8. 100 times 1 is 100 so we're left with 100 / 8. We get the answer 12.5 percent.

 

A double check:

1 divided by 8 = .125

When we substitute the 12.5 for the ? above,

12.5 divided by 100 = .125 also!

Answer 3

 1/ 8 = 0.125 = 12.5 %   / Same as converting  1/8 of a dollar to cents

 

   first convert it to decimal number, then Multiply by 100 ( shift decimal point twice to the right) and insert %

   ( divide by 100) .