Question

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

Answer 1

`64.5\%=(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 =(64.5)/(100) = 0.645`

The decimal vale of 64.5% is 0.645