Answer:
29/40 can be expressed as:
- 0.725 as a decimal
- 72.5% as a percentage
Explanation:
a decimal is a fraction written in a different way, for example 0.725, the 0 represents the place where the ones should be, the 7 represents the tenths place, the 2 represents the hundredths place, and the 5 represents the thousandths place.
Decimal numbers are written on a ten base:
123.456
1: hundreds
2: tens
3: ones
4: tenths (1/10)
5: hundredths (1/100)
6: thousandths (1/1000)