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What is greater .5 or .5%

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.5(0) is Fifty percent but .5% is less than 1%
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When you see math printed or written, " % " means " /100 ".

So " .5% " means " .5/100 ".

If you simplify that, or write it as a decimal, you get 1/200 or 0.005 .

Either way, " .5 " is greater.

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