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Convert the following fractions into percents.
17/50

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Answer:

34%

Explanation:

If you're having trouble understanding percentages, think about them as a fraction with a denominator of 100 (ex. 67% = 67/100 = 0.67, or 67% of 1.00)

With that knowledge, we can use our intuition to convert the given fraction into this same form where the denominator is 100. To do this, we can simply multiply our given number by some form of 1 to manipulate it into this form.

Knowing that 50*2 = 100, and 2/2 is 1, we multiply the fraction 17/50 by 2/2 giving us 34/100. With the information previously given, we know that the fraction 34/100 is equal to 34%.

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