exercises/converting_percents_to_decimals.html

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    <title>Converting percents to decimals</title>
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                <var id="PERCENT">roundTo( 1, randRange( 100, 1500 ) / 10 )</var>
                <var id="DECIMAL">roundTo( 5, PERCENT / 100 )</var>
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            <p>Express the percent as a decimal.</p>
            <p class="question"><code><var>PERCENT</var>\%</code></p>
            <p class="solution" data-forms="decimal"><var>DECIMAL</var></p>
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                    <p><code><var>PERCENT</var></code> percent = <code><var>PERCENT</var></code> per cent = <code><var>PERCENT</var></code> per hundred</p>
                    <p><code><var>PERCENT</var>\% = \dfrac{<var>PERCENT</var>}{100}</code></p>
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                    <p><code>\hphantom{<var>PERCENT</var>\%} = <var>DECIMAL</var></code></p>
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                <p>Another way to convert a percent to a decimal is to divide by <code>100</code> (or move the decimal two places to the left) and remove the percent sign.</p>
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