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Write each percent as a fraction in simplest form. 20%

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Answer:

1/5

Explanation:

"percent" means "per hundred"

(because cent means hundred like years in a century or cents in a dollar)

anyway

20% means

20 per 100

write it as 20/100



Now simplify it.

20/100

= 2/10

= 1/5

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