Question

How do you use the digits in a hundredths decimal to write a percent?

Answer 1

Explanation:

"Percent" literally means "per hundred" or "divided by 100". The percent symbol (%) is a shorthand way to write /100 ("divided by 100," or "hundredths"). So, hundredths and percent are essentially the same thing.

Given a "hundredths decimal", move the decimal point 2 places to the right and add a % symbol. (Moving the decimal point multiplies the number by 100; adding the % symbol divides it by 100, so the end result is the same value written in a different form.)

Example:

  19% = 19/100 = 0.19 . . . . (nineteen percent = nineteen hundredths)

and in the other direction, ...

  0.53 = 53/100 = 53% . . . . (fifty-three hundredths = fifty-three percent)