Big Ideas Math: Modeling Real Life, Grade 6
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3. Comparing and Ordering Fractions, Decimals, and Percents
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Exercise 2 Page 176

Rewrite a decimal number as a percent.

94 %

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Decimals and percents are ways to show parts of a whole. We want to tell which number is greater. 0.49, 94 % To do this, we will write a decimal as a percent. To write a decimal as a percent, we move the decimal point two places to the right and add the percent symbol.
We found that 0.49 expressed as a percent is 49 %. Since 94 is greater than 49, 94 % is greater than 49 %. This means that 94 % is greater than 0.49.