How is 125% written as a decimal and as a fraction?

Question

How is 125% written as a decimal and as a fraction?

Answer 1

Percent literally means per 100.  Whenever you see the word percent, or the symbol %, take whatever is before it, and put it over 100.

 

So 125% = 125/100.  That can be reduced to 5/4.  

 

To convert to a decimal, you can do long division, dividing 5 into 4.  Or, you can realize 5/4 = 1 and 1/4,  = 1.25.  

 

125/100 is easier to see as a decimal.  125/100 = 1 and 25/100.   "25 hundredths" is written down exactly as it is said 0.25, with the digit 5 in the hundredths place of the decimal. So 1 and 25 hundredths is 1.25.  

Answer 2

125 % = 1.25        ? same as converting 125c to $1.25

 

 125 % = 1.25 = 1 25/100 = 1 1/4