Exercise 21 Page 179

Decimals and percents are ways to show parts of a whole. We want to tell which number is greater. 76 %, 0.67 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 0.67 expressed as a percent is 67 %. Since 76 is greater than 67, 76 % is greater than 67 %. This means that 76 % is greater than 0.67.