Exercise 11 Page 194

Decimals, and percents are ways to show parts of a whole. We want to tell which number is greater. 56 %, 5.6 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 5.6 expressed as a percent is 560 %. Since 560 is greater than 56, 560 % is greater than 56 %. This means that 5.6 is greater than 56 %.