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Expressing Fraction as a Percentage

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    • Expressing Fraction as Percentage
    • Summary
    • What’s Next?

    In the previous segment, we had looked at different forms of percentage. In this segment of

    the chapter ‘Comparing Quantities’, we will see how fractions are written as percentage.

    How can we express fractions as percentage?

    Let us understand how to express fractions as a percentage using the following steps with the help of the following examples:

    Q. Express ?? in percentage.

    ??

    Solution:

    Step 1: Make denominator 100.

    If we have to express something as a percentage, we have to make its denominator equal to 100.

    So, 15 by 20 should equal some number ‘x’ by 100.

    15

    ?

    20 100

    =

    Step 2: Cross multiply the fractions.

    Since this is proportion, the product of the extremes is always equal to the product of the means.

    Thus,

    15 × 100 = 20?

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