Question

A student said that to

write a percent as a fraction, write the
number that comes before the percent
symbol over a denominator of 100. Is the
student correct? Justify your conclusion.

Answer 1

Explanation:

Yes, the student is correct. To write a percent as a fraction, we can write the number before the percent symbol as the numerator and 100 as the denominator. For example, 25% can be written as 25/100, which can be simplified to 1/4. This is because percent means "per hundred," so 25% means 25 per hundred, which can be expressed as a fraction with a denominator of 100.