Different Forms of Percentages

# Different Forms of Percentages

• Different Forms of Expressing Percentage
• Summary
• What’s Next?

In the previous segment, we had looked at a few examples of percentage. In this segment

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of the chapter ‘Comparing Quantities’, we will look at different forms of percentage.

## What are the Different forms of expressing percentage?

Percentage can be expressed in 3 ways:

1. A ratio or a fraction
2. A fraction with denominator 100
3. Decimals

Let us understand this with the help of a table by drawing a square of four parts.

 Parts of a square Ratio/Fraction Denominator 100 Decimal Percentage As one part of the square is coloured out of4, this is 14 To get the denominator as 100 both the numerator and denominator of1 will be4multiplied by 25.1 × 25 25=4 × 25 100 If we divide the fraction 25 we100get the decimalform as 0.25. 25 is 25%.100

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