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Is 3.2% or 32% bigger

User Alexey Starinsky
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If we write 3.2% and 32% in their decimal form, we have the following:


\begin{gathered} 3.2\text{ \%=}(3.2)/(100)=0.032 \\ 32\text{ \%=}(32)/(100)=0.32 \end{gathered}

as we can see,32% is bigger than 3.2%

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