Percentage to decimals

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Support material on converting a percentage to a decimal produced as part of pilot project to assist higher education tutors who are faced with demands, across all 4 nations of the UK, to improve the numeracy skills of all those studying in order to work with children and young people.

‘Percent’ means ‘out of a hundred.’
So 55% means 55 out of a hundred.
To convert this to a decimal you need to divide 55 by 100.
You can do this by dividing 55 by 10:
55 divided by 10 = 5.5 and then divide by 10 again (because 10 x
10 = 100)
5.5 divided by 10 = 0.55
You can see that 55% or 55.0 % has become 0.55 as a decimal. So
you might just want to ‘move’ the decimal point two places to
the left - but don’t tell any mathematicians I said that!!!
Watch the next video for another example.

$http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=66934Q4VjkU http://www.math-aids.com/Percent/Convert_Between_PDF.html (Select the ‘Percent to decimals’ option and your worksheet will be created. Uncheck other options) http://www.mathsisfun.com/converting-percents-decimals.html http://www.mathgoodies.com/lessons/vol4/percents_to_decimals.html http://www.qub.ac.uk/keyskills/WN/NumeracyPerctges.html#ptod http://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/ks3/maths/number/fractions_decimals_per centages/revision/1/ (Revision of fractions, decimals, percentages) Need more practice? 3$

You can suggest additional resources by adding a
comment below our numeracy blog post.
Good luck!
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Percentage to decimals

1. Conversions: percentages to decimals

2. ‘Percent’ means ‘out of a hundred.’ So 55% means 55 out of a hundred. To convert this to a decimal you need to divide 55 by 100. You can do this by dividing 55 by 10: 55 divided by 10 = 5.5 and then divide by 10 again (because 10 x 10 = 100) 5.5 divided by 10 = 0.55 You can see that 55% or 55.0 % has become 0.55 as a decimal. So you might just want to ‘move’ the decimal point two places to the left - but don’t tell any mathematicians I said that!!! Watch the next video for another example.

3. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=66934Q4VjkU http://www.math-aids.com/Percent/Convert_Between_PDF.html (Select the ‘Percent to decimals’ option and your worksheet will be created. Uncheck other options) http://www.mathsisfun.com/converting-percents-decimals.html http://www.mathgoodies.com/lessons/vol4/percents_to_decimals.html http://www.qub.ac.uk/keyskills/WN/NumeracyPerctges.html#ptod http://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/ks3/maths/number/fractions_decimals_per centages/revision/1/ (Revision of fractions, decimals, percentages) Need more practice? 3

4. You can suggest additional resources by adding a comment below our numeracy blog post. Good luck! 4

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