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Order least to greatest 29.4 percent, 2 wholes, 12/15, 1.99, 5 percent

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Answer:

5%, 29.4%, 12/15, 1.99, 2 wholes

Explanation:

The way I like to think about this kind of problem is in terms of decimals. So, to solve this problem, I will put all of the given numbers in decimal form.

The first number is 29.4%. To convert from percentages to decimals, you just divide by 100 (move the decimal point two places to the left) and remove the percent sign. So, 29.4% is equivalent to 0.294.

The second number is 2 wholes. 1 whole is 100%, so two wholes are 200%. If were to convert 200% to decimal form, we would get 2.

The third number is 12/15. We can simplify this fraction to get 4/5 (by dividing the numerator and denominator by 3, their greatest common factor). We know that 1/5 is 20%, since 100/5 is 20. This means 4/5 is 4*20%, or 80%. 80% in decimal form is 0.8.

The fourth number, 1.99, is already in decimal form.

The fifth number is 5%. If we convert this to decimal form, we get 0.05.

Our numbers in decimal form are 0.294, 2, 0.8, 1.99, and 0.05. If we were to order these from least to greatest, we would get 0.05, 0.294, 0.8, 1.99, 2. We can convert the numbers back to their original forms for the final answer: 5%, 29.4%, 12/15, 1.99, 2 wholes

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