Question

At a certain company, 64.5% of the employees have engineering degrees. Express this percent as a decimal

Answer 1

$64.5\%=\dfrac{64.5}{100}=0.645$

Answer 2

At a certain company, 64.5% of the employees have engineering degrees.

To express the percentage as a decimal we need to remove the % symbol.

To remove % symbol we always divide by 100

When we divide by 100 we move the decimal point two places to the left.

$64.5 =\frac{64.5}{100} = 0.645$

The decimal vale of 64.5% is 0.645